Whiting Forensic Hospital

NBC Connecticut Investigates has confirmed the CEO of our state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital has resigned. The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, or DMHAS said Hal Smith has stepped down effective immediately from Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown. The agency says Smith championed numerous initiatives improving patient care and safety.  It added he was instrumental in leading the...

NBC Connecticut Investigates has learned about a series of internal investigations of management at the state’s maximum-security mental health hospital. The state has shared few details of what it has been looking into at the Whiting Forensic Hospital (WFH).  A source from the hospital familiar with the situation told NBC Connecticut Investigates it may involve as many as four...

The man who gunned down a Wesleyan University student eleven years ago will remain in Connecticut’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital. A panel ruled Stephen Morgan is not ready to move to a less restrictive setting, as he serves out his 60-year sentence. Morgan, now 40, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2011 in connection with the 2009 fatal…

A report by a state non-profit said a number of unresolved issues remain at two state run psychiatric hospitals, one which has been the focus of a series of reports by NBC Connecticut Investigates.

A state panel met on Thursday to get a briefing on updated training methods for staff at Whiting Forensic Hospital.

An NBC Connecticut Investigates exclusive about a whistleblower at a state-run hospital has received attention from a state panel.

A whistleblower who reported patient abuse at Whiting Forensic Hospital unmasked himself to NBC Connecticut Investigates just a month before he died.

A board set up decades ago to advise management at our state’s maximum security psychiatric facility said it was kept in the dark about a high profile abuse case.

Former Whiting Forensic employee Michael Presnick will not face any prison time if he stays out of trouble the next two years.

Five months after a jury convicted him of multiple counts of patient cruelty, a former forensic nurse at our state’s maximum security psychiatric hospital has gone to prison.

Problems at our state’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital extend well beyond patient abuse – the physical building itself needs a makeover at a minimum, according to a task force looking at improving the facility.

A fifth person has been sentenced time behind bars in a high-profile patient abuse case broken by NBC Connecticut Investigates two years ago.

Members include people from mental health, criminal justice, and patient care fields, who will produce a study on Whiting Forensic Hospital, the subject of a series of NBC Connecticut Investigates reports about patient abuse and poor work environment.

A jury has found a former forensic nurse at Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown guilty on eight of 16 counts after two days of deliberations in a high-profile abuse case.

Day two of deliberations in a high profile patient abuse case saw no verdict, but the judge did decide to release surveillance footage at the center of the case to the public.

A four man, two woman jury will now decide the fate of a former forensic nurse in a high profile patient abuse trial.

For the first time Monday the forensic nurse charged in a high profile patient abuse case faced tough questions from the prosecution.

The man on trial in a high profile patient abuse case took to the stand in his own defense.

There was revealing testimony Thursday in a high-profile patient abuse case at Connecticut’s maximum security mental health hospital.