With a bed shortage potentially leading to the release of 12 mentally ill inmates facing criminal charges, Orange County has been given a two-week extension to find a facility to house two of the men who could've been freed this week.

On Wednesday, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer urged his colleagues to find a solution, especially since some of the men were accused of violent crimes, including murder and sexual assault.

"The reason I've sounded this alarm is because I'm scared to death for the public," Spitzer said. "If we don't have a treatment bed where they can go to be worked on by professionals to be restored with respect to their capacity, they have to be released from custody."

Spitzer said the mentally ill inmates with criminal charges pending must go to state h

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