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Fifty states, fifty emergency-hold frameworks
Every state has one; durations run from 23 hours to 10 days, 72 hours in 22 states; five states do not guarantee assessment by a qualified mental health professional; neither presentation to a judge nor prompt judicial review is uniformly required; 1.27–1.44 million…
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 3
- Jurisdiction / date
- All 50 states + D.C., laws as of 2014/2016
- Mechanism
- Emergency hold statutes
- What is documented
- Every state has one; durations run from 23 hours to 10 days, 72 hours in 22 states; five states do not guarantee assessment by a qualified mental health professional; neither presentation to a judge nor prompt judicial review is uniformly required; 1.27–1.44 million emergency detentions a year nationally, 2013–2015
- Finding or status
- Peer-reviewed data set (Hedman et al., Psychiatric Services 2016; "Reasonable or Random", 2021); open data at LawAtlas
- Limits
- Describes the instrument, not its misuse; no state records referral context
- Label
- VERIFIED
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Reference and provenance
2016-US-50-STATE-HOLDS