Long waits for Montana State Hospital leave psychiatric patients in jail
A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana's Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in the Flathead County jail on the hospital's waitlist, at times refusing food and water. A man complaining of voices in his head was jailed for 19 months awaiting a mental health evaluation...
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