"We are in a tough spot right now, no doubt," Kevin Bovenkamp, the assistant secretary of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services acknowledged in federal court Wednesday, speaking …
Washington officials and advocates have been locked in a legal struggle for nearly a decade over how to ensure people with mental illnesses aren t being warehoused in jails while their
Wait times for people in Washington jails to get into state psychiatric facilities continue to "skyrocket" five years after a settlement promised to prevent that from happening, a court monitor told …
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