Disability Rights Connecticut announced Thursday that it filed the complaint with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asking the agency to order state officials to immediately revise the vaccination policy to include people with underlying medical conditions.
Connecticut school districts begin planning vaccine clinics
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Disability Rights Connecticut says in the federal court lawsuit that the Department of Correction's use of prolonged isolation and in-cell shackling of mentally ill prisoners is cruel and unusual punishment that violates their constitutional rights.
Lawsuit: Mentally ill inmates shackled, isolated in cells
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