Colorado freezes admission to psychiatric hospitals for patients who are not in the criminal justice

[TexasTowelie]

Colorado freezes admission to psychiatric hospitals for patients who are not in the criminal justice system


There are 94 beds at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan in Denver.

Starting Christmas Eve, the Colorado Department of Human Services announced patients discharged from them are being replaced with someone in the criminal justice system.

People who have not been charged with a crime will not be given a bed for the foreseeable future.

"So, essentially, in order to get mental inpatient mental health services you have to commit a crime," Disability Law Colorado director of legal services Alison Butler said.

Read more: https://gazette.com/news/colorado-freezes-admission-to-psychiatric-hospitals-for-patients-who-are/article_a9af562c-09da-11e9-9ae2-3f13f3906c7f.html

[Runningdawg]

1. This country has 2 extremes. Lock up everyone or lock up no one.

In 1970 you could be committed if you were gay or admitted to doing LSD. In 2000 you needed to have made several serious attempts at killing yourself, or threats against someone else and now....here we are.