The CT Mirror (https://ctmirror.org/tag/legislature/)
Concerns about the medical care provided to inmates in Connecticut’s prisons emerged during a six-hour hearing Monday as family members of inmates testified about substandard care and the correction department’s former chief medical officer told lawmakers that requests for specialized treatment were routinely denied. Continue Reading →
If there’s one thing we all want, regardless of our politics, it’s to see Connecticut rising — as a place to live, work and retire — to the top where it surely belongs. Continue Reading →
New Haven — Gary Holder-Winfield watched his mother die a slow painful death over four years in the hospital. That helped convince him to embrace a controversial bill coming up in the state legislature—to allow physicians to help terminally ill patients take their lives. Holder-Winfield, a state representative, reflected on his personal transformation on that issue as he trudged up the hills of Upper Westville Sunday afternoon. He trudged carefully. The sidewalks were treacherously icy. Continue Reading →