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A former corrections officer has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly causing the death of a patient at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord.
While it is an enormous step forward, it is only one aspect on much needed reforms around the Secure Psychiatric Unit and management of the forensic population.
CONCORD – After working for more than two decades to see forensic patients moved out of the state prison into their own therapeutic hospital, state Rep. Peter
After working for more than two decades on a bipartisan effort to see forensic patients moved out of the state prison into their own therapeutic hospital, state Rep. Peter B. Schmidt, D-Dover came to Concord Thursday to see the groundbreaking of a $42 million New Hampshire Forensic Hospital.
Officials have shared little about what happened leading up to Jason Rothe’s death at New Hampshire’s Secure Psychiatric Unit on April 29, except that he died after a “physical altercation” with six correctional officers, who remain on leave pending...