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A KIRO 7 investigation in Nov. 2022 discovered judges have ordered dozens of people to receive thousands of dollars in payments from the state for waiting in jail for mental health treatment, so they can participate in their own trials.They include Alexander Jay, accused of throwing a Seattle nurse down the steps of a light rail station on March 2, 2022, kicking her in the face and breaking ribs and her clavicle.

Police say 30 minutes later, he stabbed a woman at a bus stop and later killed a man.“I can remember it very vividly,” said nurse Kim Hayes. “And I remember getting to that first landing and thinking, ‘Oh, God, what is happening?,’ and he came at me again.”

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Alexander Jay is 54 years old.

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Documents obtained by KIRO 7 show the Washington Department of Social and Health Services has already paid out $158,150 in 2022 in what are called “compensatory sanctions” in 10 people’s cases; in five of them, records show the money was paid directly to them, while in the others it went through courts, a nonprofit, family or another appointed responsible adult on behalf of that person.

Those documents show judges have ordered more than 50 other people, including Jay, to also receive compensatory sanctions payments, which are added up and can be paid out after a person has been admitted to a state psychiatric facility. Jay’s payments began May 9 and at first, they were ordered to be paid directly to him at the end; two months later, that was adjusted to go to a responsible adult for his care.

Jay was finally admitted to competency restoration at Western State Hospital on Mar. 3, 2023, and at $250 a day, that brings the total owed to Jay from the state to nearly $75,000. “It’s a tremendous amount of money,” said Hayes. “You’ve got people in a jail cell that could benefit from actual, appropriate psychiatric care. It’s an atrocity. It’s sad. It’s problematic. It’s a broken system, and it shouldn’t happen.”

The list also includes Jerrico Irizarry, charged with setting a fire at an apartment building in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood in March that sent one person to the hospital in critical condition. Adan Ibrahim also stands to accumulate payments. He’s accused of carjacking two utility workers at knifepoint and then hitting four bicyclists in Seattle last November, badly injuring two of them.

The money is either ordered to be paid to a defendant or to someone else on their behalf for their care. So why is this happening? According to a federal judge’s ruling in what’s called the Trueblood decision, once the state Department of Social and Health Services receives a court order finding someone is incompetent to stand trial, it’s supposed to admit that person in a week.

But that’s not happening. “We’re approaching (a) seven- or eight-month wait for people to get into treatment,” said Rebecca Vasquez, a senior deputy prosecutor with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “It’s the longest I’ve ever seen it.” Her focus is felony defendants going through competency proceedings. She said in some cases, judges are dismissing charges like assault and robbery. That’s because when a case is dismissed, that person goes to the top of the waitlist for evaluation by DSHS. That waitlist is now about 850 people long.

And if that person has their charges dismissed but still can’t get in for treatment, they’re leaving the system entirely, creating a whole different kind of problem. “Are you seeing people who would otherwise be waiting in jail for mental health services from the state, then going out and re-offending?” KIRO 7 reporter Linzi Sheldon asked. “Absolutely,” she said. “We see people who start with one case and end up with two or three or four cases pending.”.

“How often is that happening?,” Sheldon asked. “Over and over again,” said Vasquez. All this has created what DSHS Office of Forensic Mental Health Services Director Dr. Thomas Kinlen calls “an absolutely terrible, horrible situation.” He points to the COVID pandemic as a cause, with hospital admissions on the DSHS end, the pandemic backlog of cases coming through, and a demand for competency restoration.

“We’ve had more referrals in this last fiscal year than ever before, almost a 40% increase from fiscal year (20)21 to (20)22,” said Kinlen. “How do you get ahead of this?,” Sheldon asked. “One (way) is just trying to figure out how to get more beds online,” said Kinlen. He said next year, DSHS aims to add 58 beds at Western State Hospital between January and March, 16 beds near Rochester at the Maple Lane facility and 30 more there for people found not guilty by reason of insanity, which would free up room at places at Western.

In the interim, though, Dr. Kinlen warns that the situation will continue to escalate. “Unfortunately, I think we’re still going to get worse before we get better,” he said. “However, one of the things that I would highlight is that traditionally there is a slowdown. The data will show that between November and December there is a slowdown in references by competition”.

DSHS also needs to fill positions at its facilities. Staff vacancies are high and KIRO 7 found that DSHS is spending about $3.4 million per month on contract nurses at Eastern State Hospital. “Are you optimistic that you can fill all those slots for those connecting beds?” Sheldon asked. “Optimistic, yes,” Kinlen said. “(We) recognize that the reality of the workforce is definitely different now, unfortunately.”

Life is different now for Kim Hayes. Her sense of security is gone, she said, but she is speaking out because she wants more people to know that this system is in crisis. “We need to improve this process and we need to do it carefully and quickly,” she said. “I want people to think about it. It’s out there, and maybe there’s someone out there who has a great idea.”

She is still waiting for the closing. “(Alexander Jay) gets the treatment he needs, he comes back,” she said. “You are facing a legal trial. You get that out of the way and then the result of that is what I would call justice, I guess.” DSHS said admissions are prioritized based on the severity of a person’s illness, including whether she could harm herself or others, whether she is in jail or on bond, and how long she has been waiting behind bars.

Kinlen said the state does not consider the seriousness of a person’s charges, though they are considering whether that should factor into decisions. DSHS does not consider whether the state was ordered to pay a person for waiting for them.

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