The state has for too long flouted a long-standing court order to admit jailed criminal defendants with mental illness to the Oregon State Hospital to become competent to stand trial, U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson found.

A federal judge on Friday found the Oregon State Hospital in contempt of a court order governing the timely admissions of criminal defendants and will issue hefty daily fines starting Saturday to force the hospital to comply.

U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson said the state has not taken “all reasonable steps” to admit jailed criminal defendants to the psychiatric hospital within seven days for treatment when they are found unable to assist in their defense.

Nelson said the state’s crisis is largely the result of its “lack of foresight.”