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The Dallas County Jail grapples with a huge number of mentally ill people in its custody, but a new program designed to help reduce that — and get help to people with mental illness — isn’t filling its beds.
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The hospital says it plans to triple its mental health services in 2023.
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An investigation showed that, in half of unnatural deaths in Houston area jails, the deceased had been flagged as potentially mentally ill.
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Dallas commissioners told the Texas Health and Human Services Commission it has 30 days to find suitable mental health beds or face a lawsuit.
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The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard economic times and isolation.
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The lack of space at state mental hospitals has commissioners and staff looking elsewhere.
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It’s been about three months since Sophia Lewis’ son Shamond died after being arrested and taken to the Dallas County Jail.