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Determining whether someone is mentally fit to stand trial in Pennsylvania often traps them in the very place making them worse — jail.

Rachel Bridgeman spent 49 days in Allegheny County Jail waiting for treatment at a state hospital because a court found her incompetent to stand trial.
Nate Smallwood / For Spotlight PA and PINJ
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