2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319i - Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities
Section 17a-561 - (Formerly Sec. 17-239). Persons to be treated at Whiting Forensic Hospital.

The Whiting Forensic Hospital shall exist for the care and treatment of (1) patients with psychiatric disabilities, confined in facilities under the control of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, including persons who require care and treatment under maximum security conditions, (2) persons convicted of any offense enumerated in section 17a-566 who, after examination by the staff of the diagnostic unit of the hospital as herein provided, are determined to have psychiatric disabilities and be dangerous to themselves or others and to require custody, care and treatment at the hospital, (3) inmates in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction who are transferred in accordance with sections 17a-512 to 17a-517, inclusive, and who require custody, care and treatment at the hospital, and (4) persons committed to the hospital pursuant to section 17a-582 or 54-56d.

(1957, P.A. 650, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 426, S. 1; P.A. 73-245, S. 3; P.A. 80-470, S. 2, 11; P.A. 95-257, S. 18, 20, 58; P.A. 18-86, S. 34.)

History: 1959 act changed wording of Subdiv. (2) and deleted stipulation that persons convicted, etc., be mentally ill, mentally deficient or emotionally unbalanced; P.A. 73-245 replaced “security treatment center” with “Whiting Forensic Institute”; P.A. 80-470 reworded provisions; Sec. 17-239 transferred to Sec. 17a-561 in 1991; P.A. 95-257 replaced Whiting Forensic Institute with Whiting Forensic Division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital, replaced references to mentally ill persons with references to persons with psychiatric disabilities and replaced Department of Mental Health with Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 18-86 replaced “Whiting Forensic Division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital” with “Whiting Forensic Hospital”, added Subdiv. (4) re persons committed to hospital pursuant to Sec. 17a-582 or 54-56d, and made technical and conforming changes, effective June 4, 2018.

Annotations to former section 17-239:

Cited. 20 CA 737.

Cited. 41 CS 229.

Annotation to present section:

Cited. 224 C. 168.