LD 475, Page 5 - 121th Legislature, FIRST REGULAR Session

in any other county facility for an adult or juvenile, that

county may contact the Commissioner of Corrections for approval

to obtain temporary housing in a correctional or detention

facility operated by the Department of Corrections. The sending

county shall contact each other county facility in a continuing

effort to locate placement in a county facility. When the

sending county locates available space in a county facility, the

sheriff of the sending county shall transfer the person from the

department's correctional or detention facility and place the

person in the county facility except that, if an inmate in a

county jail has been determined by an appropriate medical or

mental health professional to need inpatient treatment because

the inmate is a danger to self or others or at imminent risk of

harm due to the inmate's inability to care for that inmate, the

commissioner may not place this inmate in any setting other than

a forensic hospital.

SUMMARY

This bill accomplishes the following.

1. It directs the Department of Behavioral and
Developmental Services to add no more than 20 beds to the
capacity of the Riverview Psychiatric Center, to be used as
swing beds to accommodate the forensic and civil commitment
needs of the State.

2. It appropriates $300,000 for county mental illness
treatment pilot programs.

3. It directs the Department of Corrections to establish a
training program to provide specialized training to case
management and community support providers and providers of
mental health services.

4. It directs the board of visitors for each correctional
facility to report annually to the Commissioner of
Corrections, the Governor and the Legislature. It requires
that all uses of lengthy administrative segregation for
certain inmates be reported to the appropriate board of
visitors.

5. It establishes boards of visitors for county
correctional facilities.

6. It requires that an inmate in a county jail determined
by a medical or mental health professional to need inpatient
treatment be placed in a forensic hospital bed.

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