Forensic Mental News Today

Colorado's police and courts are not designed to help mentally ill people and the court system lands sick people in jail when they need help.

The Denver Post examines why hundreds of Coloradans cycle through the state courts' competency process over and over again, caught in the failures of the criminal justice and mental health systems.

The Denver Post examines why hundreds of Coloradans cycle through the state courts' competency process over and over again, caught in the failures of the criminal justice and mental health systems.

The Denver Post examines why hundreds of Coloradans cycle through the state courts' competency process over and over again, caught in the failures of the criminal justice and mental health systems.

Colorado's police and courts are not designed to help mentally ill people and the court system lands sick people in jail when they need help.

39 additional mental health beds will open this month, following bed closures due to the effects of the pandemic.

This month the hospital in Pueblo reopened 39 mental health beds. The state says it still needs to open 60 more.

CDHS in March announced it was offering the $14,000 sign-on bonus to attract nurses to the state mental health hospital in Pueblo.

An inefficient system in Colorado leaves gaping holes -- the mentally ill who live on the streets or reside in Colorado's jails often end up in emergency rooms and in the courts.

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