Katy Golvala

Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Raheem Mullins announced this week the launch of a task force to design a pilot program for a specialized behavioral health court in the state.

During an announced visit to Bridgeport on June 30, 2025, when the outside temperature registered a high of 96 degrees, several housing areas lacked operational fans and ice water. Fans were observed stored under stairwells and not deployed, despite the heat. During an unannounced visit several days later, a plumbing failure relocated roughly 50 residents to the gym, where there was only one small fixed fan and minimal water available in a single cooler. The high that day was 87 degrees.

Connecticut will provide residents with financial assistance again in 2027 to partly offset expired federal aid for Affordable Care Act health plans, Gov.

Physicians and hospital leadership say the units provide a calm, healing environment for patients arriving with mental health crises.

Emergency rooms aren’t equipped to meet the needs of patients in the midst of a mental health crisis but a handful of CT hospitals are making improvements.

In late 2024, Alexis Rodriguez was complaining of stomach issues while incarcerated at Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield. He wasn't able to use the bathroom regularly.

Health services accounted for a third of the nearly 2,000 complaints received by the Office of Correction Ombuds regarding the conditions in CT prisons.

Two Connecticut hospitals owned by one of the largest nonprofit Catholic health systems in the country have struggled in recent years with serious shortcomings when it comes to patient care.

Saint Francis Hospital has received nine 'immediate jeopardy' violations since 2023, the most in CT, and Johnson Memorial ranks second.

Trinity Health hospitals in Connecticut face repeated immediate jeopardy citations as state officials press for improvements at Saint Francis and Johnson Memorial.