Published June 04. 2021 11:47PM
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
A lawsuit on behalf of patients was filed Thursday seeking to prevent the closure of a high-security unit at the Connecticut mental hospital that treats those acquitted of crimes by reason of insanity.
Lawyers with the advocacy groups Disability Rights Connecticut and the Connecticut Legal Rights Project allege that closing the unit at Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown would create “likely and imminent irreparable harm” to patients, who they say will be transferred to units that cannot provide the care they need.
The state recently decided to close the unit, one of six high-security units in the hospital, and consolidate other services amid staff shortages, according to the lawsuit.
They’re giving it more than the old college try.
College students throughout the country have in many ways been robbed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students returned home and avoided campus, either taking a gap year or continuing their degree from home. Students who remained on campus had to be rather isolated. All students missed the one-on-one instruction with professors and the feeling of finding a new friend in class. And for the time being, bar nights are rare, and dancing in crowded, sweaty basements, along with other kinds of larger gatherings, is a fantasy from yesteryear.
Researchers have found that COVID-19 has increased the depression rate among college students. That’s not to mention the physical health threat of the coronavirus. According to Connecticut College’s COVID-19 dashboard, a website that tracks coronavirus statistics at the college, 48,753 tests were performed on students and employees between Aug. 17, 2020, and Jan. 31 of this year. There were 67 pos
Published February 23. 2021 12:53AM
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
Connecticut high school students learning exclusively at home during the pandemic are in greater danger of failing to advance to the next grade than those who opted for a model that includes at least some in-person learning, according to a report released Monday by the nonprofit educational organization RISE.
The report found that 33% of high school students in the urban districts it studied are in danger of not progressing to the next grade, which compares to about 15% in a non-pandemic year.
The report looked at more than 12,000 students in Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, Norwalk, Naugatuck, Meriden and Stamford during the first 2 [1/2] months of the school year.