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When a person is acquitted on the basis of mental disease or defect, a crime has been committed and the acquitted person committed it.

The younger Shehadi’s fight is not over. Whether he can help his brother finally leave the hospital he entered more than 25 years ago or not, he wants to change the system that has kept him there all these years.

How do you balance public safety and rehabilitating inmates found not guilty by reason of insanity? It’s a struggle state lawmakers are grappling with right...

Lawmakers are looking at changes to the state’s maximum-security psychiatric facility. The legislation follows revelations of patient abuse, many of which...

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Published April 08. 2021 3:35PM | Updated April 08. 2021 10:07PM By MARK PAZNIOKAS and KELAN LYONS, Connecticut Mirror The troubled history of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a high-security detention facility located in Middletown and closed in 2018, should not disqualify it from becoming a shelter for migrant children now housed in overcrowded facilities in Texas, state officials said Thursday. Vannessa Dorantes, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, said the...

DCF commissioner says old juvenile detention center could humanely shelter migrant kids MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG Vanessa Dorantes, the commissioner of DCF, said the juvenile training center could be humanely reimagines as a shelter for border migrants. The troubled history of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a high-security detention facility closed in 2018, should not disqualify it from becoming a shelter for migrant children now housed in overcrowded facilities in Texas, state ...