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Inmates committed to the custody of DHS have spent weeks and even months waiting in jail to be transferred to a state hospital, according to a recent 5 INVESTIGATES review of court records.
The law requires the Department of Human Services to transfer inmates to a state-run facility within 48 hours of a civil commitment.
After a judge blasted the state's largest agency for keeping a man with mental illness locked in jail for months, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) insisted in court on Wednesday that it is complying with state law.
A mentally ill man, wrongfully jailed in Scott County, is finally scheduled to be transferred to a state-run Community Behavioral Health Hospital weeks after he should have been moved because of his condition.
“The Gap: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect” – Too mentally ill to be tried for rape, but DHS and the courts say he’s safe to live on the streets