Mental competency consequences: the hidden, unreliable data Texas tracks... or doesn't

This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.AUSTIN (KXAN) — Naquan Carter is a name members of the Joint Committee on Access and Forensics Services might never have heard, despite his tragic outcome on a waitlist considered the committee's main focus. For more than eight months, he was among hundreds of people waiting and filtering through the state's system of mental competency restoration.In Texas, people charged with crimes and found mentally i