Purdue Pharma files re-organization plan; CT, other states reject proposal
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Purdue Pharma is headquartered at 201 Tresser Blvd., in downtown Stamford, Conn.Frank Franklin II / Associated Press
STAMFORD Bankrupt OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma filed Tuesday a re-organization plan, which it said would provide billions of dollars to tackle the opioid crisis but Connecticut and nearly two-dozen other states panned that proposal, arguing for changes such as a greater contribution from the company’s owners.
The Stamford-based firm’s new plan consists of the main terms that it has proposed, since filing for Chapter 11 protection in September 2019, for settling the approximately 3,000 lawsuits consolidated in its bankruptcy case. It values its proposal at more than $10 billion, and the vast majority of the proceeds would be allocated for efforts to respond to a national opioid epidemic that is resulting in tens of thousands of deaths every year.
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Published March 11. 2021 9:57PM
HARTFORD (AP) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Connecticut prison officials are imposing detention conditions that are too harsh on a former death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer, ordering the state to relax those conditions.
Richard Reynolds, convicted of killing Waterbury officer Walter Williams in 1992, is detained at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers under the highest Level 5 risk level. He says he is confined to his cell 21 to 22 hours a day and has no interaction with any inmates in the general population conditions he claims are unconstitutional.
Three judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld a lower court judge and ruled Reynolds constitutional rights to equal protection are being violated, because two other former death row inmates are classified at a Level 4 risk level that allows them to live in the general population. They ordered that Reynolds be detained in sim