James Dean convinced the correctional staff at the local jail that he was spitting up blood. He had only a week remaining on a 60-day sentence for forging a check on a former employer. Since it wasn't ...

A jury trial is now underway in a high profile patient abuse case a story broken two years ago by NBC Connecticut Investigates. Former forensic nurse Mark Cusson is facing 16 criminal charges, accused ...

JONES IS BEING HELD WITHOUT BAIL. TOM: TONIGHT WE’RE LEARNG INMORE FROM DHHS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL OFFICIALS ABOUT PLANS TO BUILD A FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. IN A VIRTUAL PUBLIC MEETG,IN ...

A year after 10 workers were arrested and 35 were fired in the abuse of a psychiatric patient at the maximum-security hospital, a new director of Whiting, hired through Yale, starts his job Friday.

A bill that would reestablish an oversight board for Whiting Forensic Hospital and charge the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services with creating a plan to replace the Middletown hospital ...

CLOSER TO BEING BUILT. OUR IMANI FLEMING EXPLAINS HOW THIS FACILITY WILL HELP PEOPLE GET THE TREATMENT THEY NEED. <"ITS SO EXCITING TO BE AT THIS STAGE OF THE PROJECT AND FINALLY BREAKING GROUND."> IT ...

Work on the project was delayed after a problem with the calculations for the building’s support piles was discovered.

The state is on track to begin construction of a $49 million, 24-bed forensic hospital next to the state hospital early next spring or summer, but it’s going to cost about $757,000 more than expected ...