Tag: Colorado Mental Health Institute
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Court orders competency evaluation of 16th Street Mall stabbing suspect
Defense attorneys previously claimed Elijah Caudill had a “debilitating mental illness”
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Former Colorado parental evaluator pleads guilty to felonies in custody case fraud case
A former Colorado parental evaluator who sent more than 20 child custody cases into chaos amid accusations that she lied about holding a doctorate in psychology pleaded guilty on Friday to two felonies and a misdemeanor. Attorney General Phil Weiser announced in a press release that Shannon McShane, 57, pleaded guilty to one count each…
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Colorado Mental Hospital police chief under investigation
Richard McMarron is the second police chief to be removed in six years.
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Q&A: Psychiatrist who interviewed Aurora mass shooter talks about what legally insane means
The murder trial of Ahmad Alissa, who faces multiple charges in the killing of 10 people at a King Soopers in Table Mesa in Boulder three years ago, has reached its final days after two weeks of complex and often emotional testimony. The prosecution and the defense made their closing arguments to the Boulder jurors…
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Trial set to begin for Boulder mass shooting suspect next week
Ahmad Alissa faces 10 counts of first-degree murder in the March 2021 shooting.
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Man accused of King Soopers mass shooting scheduled for late September hearing on competency
The man accused of 2021’s mass shooting in Boulder will have a two-day hearing on Sept. 27 and 28 to determine if he has the mental capacity to stand trial. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 24, was previously ruled incompetent to face the case against him since late 2021. He has undergone treatment, including forced medication,…
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Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo re-accredited despite scoring poorly on quality measures
Surveyors found Colorado’s primary psychiatric hospital in Pueblo scored poorly on quality measures in comparison to other psychiatric hospitals in the nation but re-accredited the facility for the next three years. The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care, last month notified Jill Marshall, the chief executive officer…
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Work begins on addressing violations at Colorado mental hospital: ‘We’re using a system that doesn’t work now’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the number of online beds and employees working at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo continue on a downward trajectory, triage measures to help alleviate the increasingly clogged pipeline for pre-trial criminal defendants waiting in jails for admittance to Colorado’s largest psychiatric hospital…
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Backlog of people waiting for treatment at Colorado’s mental hospital could lead to more death: Report
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More criminal defendants with untreated psychosis languishing in Colorado jails will maim and kill themselves if the state doesn’t reduce a growing backlog of nearly 350 people waiting for treatment at the state’s primary mental hospital, court-ordered monitoring reports predict. And court documents and budget…
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Spike in suicides at Colorado jail highlights shortfalls of mental health care for those behind bars
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a 33-year-old man took his life last week while incarcerated at the El Paso County jail, the number of suicides in the facility since 2019 rose to five, after nearly a decade when none…