SEATTLE — The state of Washington has agreed to a plan to resolve a lawsuit filed on behalf of mentally ill people who’ve been warehoused in jails for weeks or months while awaiting competency services. A settlement reached Thursday between Disability Rights Washington and the Department of Social and Health Services is designed to bring the state into compliance with a judge’s 2015 ruling that said the state was violating the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.
Comment on Rights group, state reach settlement in competency lawsuit
MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press, The Columbian
Fri, 08/17/2018 - 8:26pm
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