House Majority Leader and State Rep. William Lamberth hopes to double the number of treatment beds for people charged with a crime but are found not competent to stand trial because of an intellectual disability.
It comes after NewsChannel 5 Investigates reported that some judges were upset with the lack of treatment beds after the passage of Jillian’s Law last year.
The law, which is named after Belmont student Jillian Ludwig, who was shot and killed while walking in a park, requires that people found not competent to stand trial receive treatment instead of simply being released back to the streets…