If Adan Castaneda were charged with a crime and found mentally incompetent to stand trial in October 2022, he would be court ordered to a state mental hospital and stuck in jail for about two years before a hospital bed would become available.
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This story was produced with support from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Impact Fund.
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