This piece was updated by staff to reflect changes to the law after the story went to print.
A deplorable practice in Washington is on its way out, thanks to the state supreme court.
In a unanimous decision handed down on Aug. 7, the high court ruled that “psychiatric boarding” —the practice of housing people in need of involuntary psychiatric treatment in a community hospital, where staff are neither trained nor equipped to treat such patients — violated the state’s Involuntary Treatment Act (ITA). ...