Jails aren't intended to house people long-term; That's what prisons are for. Jails are SUPPOSED to house you for a few weeks/months, til they can get you into court for sentencing, then off to prison. That said, the system is a mess, and it's not uncommon for people to be held in jail for a year or more. But in general, they'll find a reason to send you into prison if they can, to free up the jail cell- And getting notification of a long continuance is exactly the kind of excuse they'll typically use to do that.
From what I've seen it usually goes the *other* direction, where overcrowded prisons transfer some of their lower-level offenders to jails that have free space.
Inmates held in remand normally stay in jail. Prisons are for people convicted of felonies. While some states may creatively use their facilities to house people where they have space, it is normal for someone waiting in trial to stay in jail, even if they've been there for years.
Jails aren't *meant* to hold people for a long time, but they can and do sometimes. Usually there is a section of the jail where they contain the people who are waiting for trial for violent felonies.
Part of this is that the jail is meant to hold people close to where their court proceedings are taking place, near where their attorney is located, etc. Jails have provisions for getting inmates in and out of the facility quickly so they can go to court for the day, etc. That's why jails are usually run by the county and located nearby. Greene County is tiny so they've opted to pitch in for a larger facility that they can share in Orange County, with only a tiny holding facility for the Sheriff and the court, but CVRJ is still a relatively short drive away.
To get to the psych ward, you generally need to be either a danger to yourself or others or so batshit crazy you are incapable of even basic functioning. Everyone there is fairly crazy, or got crazy enough to need to go to the psych ward to be stabilized.
Normally, yes. Being sent to a hospital while waiting for trial is not unusual at all though, and the bar for being sent for treatment is far lower. They need to have the person stable for the court, so there's a lot of incentive to do so and fewer protections since the individual already has their liberties curtailed.
The defense attorney is tasked with making sure that the treatment is for good cause and not as a means of abuse. Usually, unless it's for dangerous behavior, it's the defense attorney that requests the treatment.
As far as I'm concerned, the great radio silence saga started on the day of the hearing, and in this 25 day block, we have the hearing, Valentine's Day, Christian Love Day, (potentially) Chris going catatonic, (potentially) Chris going psychotic, someone initiating the transfer, the transfer itself, and the transfer being posted.
Only question is where all of these events took place. As has been mentioned, the system could have been backlogged for months, and maybe they've been trying to get Chris into a hospital since, say, he got blocked from using the jail's basketball court, or any other number of things, but I'm putting my money on a full-fledged tard-out.
My best guess is that Chris' status changed either at or shortly before the hearing. The transfer notice on VINE may have been delayed, or he may have actually remained at CVRJ during this time but transferred to medical, and it just took them a long time to get him a spot at the hospital.
It could have been a tard-out, but it could also be a deliberate tactic by Heilberg to get Chris to the full year anniversary. Chris obviously needs psychiatric care anyway, and this way they get a nice six month continuance that ends right when a good plea deal could be made.
You know looking at the two I think it's the same picture as the one 7 months ago.
Yup that's his intake picture at CVRJ. We got that one and his first one at Henrico County Jail a couple of days before that.
Why would drugs change anything? Chris is not schizophrenic. He isn't having hallucinations, He's just really stupid and has idiotic beliefs. As far as I know there are no drugs that can make you change your beliefs.
They probably are going to give him schizo drugs because they assume he is hallucinating, since they would assume nobody could believe the things Chris believes otherwise. When they don't work, they'll be puzzled as to why until they realize there were never hallucinations, and he really is stupid enough to believe he's married to hedgehog poke-mans and stuff like that.
They're probably going to try a variety of things and see what helps and what doesn't. They might have no idea what the fuck to do with him, but Chris is going to have to learn to recant his delusions. I'd say that he'd just pretend to have dropped them, except Chris is terrible at hiding what he's thinking. In the past, he's gone to therapy specifically to stop some of his actions that got him in trouble (trespassing, assault), in this case his grip on reality would be the primary issue since that is what is needed for him to understand what he needs to do in court.
i.e. the core problem is the "soul bonding" shit since that's directly related to his crime.
The continence probably hit Chris hard.
Chris has always had problems with continence.
