State cannot find staffing for treatment beds funded through Jillian’s Law

A disaster.

That’s what a Davidson County judge calls the lack of treatment beds in Tennessee for people deemed incompetent to stand trial because of an intellectual disability. If a person is arrested but a doctor determines that the person does not understand the charges against them, then that individual cannot stand trial.

The legislature passed Jillian’s Law last year, which required treatment for people found not competent to stand trial instead of releasing them back to the streets…

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