Suffering in Silence: Long wait times at Regional Center leave people sitting in jail cells

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – More than 100 days in a jail cell without a conviction. “That bothered me,” Quentin Renner, a Sarpy County man, told 10/11. He was in the Sarpy County Jail for months waiting for a bed at the Lincoln Regional Center after being found not competent to stand trial. But there wasn’t a bed for him.

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