B.C. Needs Second Forensic Hospital

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B.C. hospital overwhelmed by mentally ill offenders: report

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Report: B.C. needs a second forensic psychiatric hospital because the existing one doesn't have enough room to accommodate all the violent, mentally ill offenders who need to go there for treatment.

Ontario has 11 forensic hospitals for a population of 15.9 million ; B.c. has one.

The 190 -bed Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam treats people found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder or unfit to stand trial.

The Health Ministry insists there are community resources to help psychiatric hospital patients reintegrate into the community.

Critics say there is an acute shortage of housing for patients discharged from the psychiatric hospital.

Health Ministry says it recently opened 10 involuntary care beds at the Surrey pretrial jail for people in custody with mental health and substance use.

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