psychiatric hospital

It’s the biggest legal payment ever made to an individual by our state – all connected to reports by NBC Connecticut Investigates about patient abuse at Connecticut’s maximum security psychiatric hospital. We’re talking about the case of Bill Shehadi, who has been at the Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown since 1995. A judge has signed off on a $9 million…

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 now as they try to rebuild and redefine how our maximum security psychiatric hospital is run in Middletown. “The idea that my offender could be free, even for a few hours, at the say...