Psychiatric Hospitalization/Crisis Services. The Jail will ensure that prisoners requiring emergency psychiatric hospitalization or who are acutely mentally ill receive timely and adequate treatment by initiating a Temporary Detention Order or transferring to a hospital offering the needed services.
Psychiatric Hospitalization/Crisis Services. Defendant shall adopt and fully implement new policies, procedures, and training curricula ensuring that prisoners requiring emergency psychiatric hospitalization or who are acutely mentally ill receive timely and adequate treatment either on site or by agreement with a local hospital. These remedial measures shall require Defendant to provide crisis and acute care in an appropriate therapeutic environment that is available to all prisoners who need it, including access to beds in a mental health care setting for short-term treatment and regular, consistent treatment sufficient to address the crisis.
