Speaking on behalf of her son, Wayne World, Carrie World, appeared at a press conference with State Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano, Wayne World received a $1.3 million settlement in a malpractice case against the state.

The government of Connecticut spent about $63 million from its Adjudicated Claims account for the 2018-2019 fiscal year to settle lawsuits, pay judgments and cover legal fees in cases that had sometimes lasted years. State records show about 800 entries of payouts during that period from the account, shown as a line item from the General Fund. Of the $63 million, 93 percent went toward six major cases.

Dr. Joseph Bretonʼs departure comes as he was overseeing the stateʼs transition away from UConn Health as the provider of prison medical care, to Breton, who had worked as a prison doctor for UConn Health, became a Department of Correction employee when he accepted the medical chiefʼs position in March.

On May 15, 2017, after serving 37 years, David Maldonado was released from prison. He had been sentenced to life for a murder he committed when he was 16. But for Maldonado, getting out was about more than freedom; his release might have also saved his life. In 1997, Maldonado was diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C—a disease, now curable, that the state of Pennsylvania had refused to treat. “Society really didn’t care whether I lived or died,” he told me recently.

Newly filed court documents show a medical investigator for the prison system expressed reservations about the care of an inmate, who charges in one of a growing number of medical-neglect lawsuits that his cutaneous T-cell lymphoma was diagnosed for more than two years as psoriasis.

The New Haven Democracy Fund is Connecticut's only municipal campaign finance program. Ken Krayeske has been the administrator of this unique program for more than a year.

In the wake of the pay-to-play scandal that sank a Congressional campaign of a favored Connecticut candidate, Connecticut Magazine asked political figures and leaders in Connecticut for their opinions on how to end such corruption.

Betty Harris couldn't find a lawyer to take her cases. She had an aging copyright infringement case against a major multinational entertainment corporation, and an unrelated family matter.