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| Bill On Transfer To Prison Of Violent Criminally Insane Patients Dies |
| By ctnow.com- Alaine Griffin |
| Published: 04/15/2015 |
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HARTFORD — State officials grappling with the case of Francis Anderson were hoping members of the judiciary committee Monday would pass legislation they said would have closed a loophole in state laws that address where to house legally insane criminals deemed too dangerous for the state's maximum-security psychiatric hospital. But Senate Bill 1027, which sought to clarify laws already on the books regarding criminal defendants with psychiatric disabilities, never made it out of the committee. It was among 45 bills that died Monday due to what legislators are calling fallout from an email dispute between two legislators fighting over the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Chase T. Rogers. Staff members at the Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown said Tuesday that they were disappointed that the bill giving the Psychiatric Security Review Board, which monitors people acquitted of crimes by reason of insanity, authority to transfer violent legally insane patients charged with a criminal offense to the Department of Correction, did not move out of the committee. Read More. |
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