CT inmate died after prison nurse called symptoms 'psychosomatic,' lawsuit says

One DOC nurse, Kenneth Bradley, who now is being sued along with the state and the CEO of prison health care, noted in his ...
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Video of confrontation that ended in CT inmate death should be public: Judge

H ARTFORD - A Hartford Superior Court judge ruled Thursday in favor of releasing to the public a video showing a ...

Video of CT prison confrontation that ended in inmate's death should be released, judge says

HARTFORD — A Hartford Superior Court judge ruled Thursday in favor of releasing to the public a video showing a confrontation ...
Hartford Courant

A woman in a CT prison died of an overdose. An investigation failed to ID who supplied the drugs

An investigation by the Connecticut Inspector General concluded that an inmate found unresponsive in her cell at a correctional facility in East Lyme last August died of an overdose, but investigators ...
Hartford Courant

Opinion: CT governor must make prisons accountable for inmate deaths

Criminally convicted people are generally not very healthy. Many have smoked, abused drugs and alcohol, and become mentally ill or close to it. So it’s to be expected that some will die in prison. But ...
WTNH

5 staff members hospitalized after apparent inmate overdose at Suffield prison

SUFFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) — Five staff members at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield were transported to the hospital Friday shortly after an inmate suffered an apparent overdose, ...
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Some CT prisons failed to keep inmates cool during heat waves, report shows

Conditions at the prisons during extreme heat could be considered unconstitutional, the Department of Correction ombudsman ...