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Victims retraumatized by new state rules on release of criminally insane

Court rejects Connecticut officials' bid to keep secret a police report on hospital patient's death – Winnipeg Free Press

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CT Court: Some records at mental health facilities releasable

Waterbury arsonist to be released soon

WATERBURY - Rebuffed by his mother when he wanted to join her late-night card game, Akbar Ali went to extreme measures. He set her city house on fire in 1983. Ali, formerly known as George Crawford, later was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and in 1985 was committed to t

State's attorney seeks public hearing after transfer of woman who stabbed Hartford officer to less-secure unit in CT psychiatric hospital, a move now allowed by law – Hartford Courant

Under a recent Connecticut law enacted this fall, three people committed to the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board after being found not guilty of their crimes by reason of insanity or mental defect have been granted a so-called “step downs” from the maximum security Whiting Forensic Division at the Connecticut Valley Hospital campus in Middletown to Dutcher Hall, the less-secure but still locked inpatient unit.

Confinement hearing set for CVH mental patient who killed Middletown girl in 1989

Connecticut to pay $9 million to settle suit over the abuse, psychological 'torture' of patient at state psychiatric hospital – Hartford Courant

Connecticut has settled a $9 million lawsuit in the case of William Shehadi, a mentally ill man whose physical and psychological abuse, while he was a patient at the state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital, were captured on video.

State lawmakers hear calls to improve Whiting Forensic Hospital

In a controversial proposal, the majority of the task force members called for the elimination of the Psychiatric Security Review Board.

Investigation finds 'grave staffing shortages' at Whiting Forensic Hospital

Insanity trial of a Brooklyn man accused of raping woman begins