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WATERBURY - Rebuffed by his mother when he wanted to join her late-night card game, Akbar Ali went to extreme measures.
He set her city house on fire in 1983.
Ali, formerly known as George Crawford, later was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and in 1985 was committed to t
Under a recent Connecticut law enacted this fall, three people committed to the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board after being found not guilty of their crimes by reason of insanity or mental defect have been granted a so-called “step downs” from the maximum security Whiting Forensic Division at the Connecticut Valley Hospital campus in Middletown to Dutcher Hall, the less-secure but still locked inpatient unit.