The shortage of personnel qualified to conduct court-ordered psychiatric evaluations at the Belize Central Prison remains unresolved six months after Breaking Belize News first brought the backlog to public attention. At the time, roughly 40 inmates were stuck behind bars waiting for assessments their cases could not move forward without. That bottleneck has essentially held steady, leaving defendants to languish in prison while their hearings sit idle on court calendars. The problem cuts in a second direction as well, because some accused people end up walking free without ever being evaluated at all. The Kolbe Foundation, the organization responsible for running the prison, has now confirmed it has been paying private psychiatrists to assist inmates whose families cannot cover the cost. That arrangement has kept a limited number of evaluations moving, but it drains the foundation's resources and offers no lasting fix. Families of inmates continue to push for an official mechanism so that court-ordered assessments stop depending on private money and goodwill.