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Judge Hears Arguments In Coleman Case
The inmate who has waged a hunger strike for more than two years watched his lawyers make their closing arguments Tuesday, but was not allowed to speak. William B. Coleman, who says he's using a hunger strike to protest...
Judge To Hear Closing Arguments Tuesday
A Connecticut judge is scheduled to hear closing arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate who has been on a hunger strike for more than two years. Superior Court Judge James Graham was asked 11 months ago by...
Coleman Trial Day 5
Emotional Final Day of Testimony
William Coleman unsuccessfully fought back tears when he was asked how he felt when a prison doctor placed a tube in his nose and fed him against his will. Coleman, a Connecticut inmate on a hunger strike to protest...
Coleman Trial Day 4
Inmate Takes the Stand
William Coleman, the inmate who has been on a hunger strike for nearly 17 months, was finally able to take the stand Tuesday afternoon to defend his protest. The Correction Department is seeking to obtain a court order that...
Coleman Trial Day 3
Doctor Says Inmate Could Prompt Copycats
Most of the third day of inmate William Coleman's trial was consumed by the testimony of a state psychiatrist who is worried that Coleman's attempt to continue his hunger strike may prompt copycat behavior. Dr. Suzanne Ducate, director of...
Coleman Trial Day 2
Expert Testifies Force Feeding Was Unethical
He doesn't consider himself an expert on prison protocol, but a bioethics expert testified Friday that he believes prison doctors acted unethically when they force fed a British citizen on a hunger strike. During the second day of inmate...
Right To Die Trial Begins
As he walked into the courtroom Thursday inmate William B. Coleman blew kisses to his friend Carol Kinsley, who drove from Newport, Rhode Island to watch as her friend fought to continue his hunger strike without interference from the...
Hunger Striking Prisoner Finally Get His Day In Court
The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut will head to court next week to defend an inmate's right to protest his conviction with a hunger strike. William Coleman, who initiated his hunger strike in Sept. 2007, has been given...
Hunger Striking Prisoner's Dream of a
New Trial Won't Come True This Year
A habeas corpus petition filed in 2005 by hunger striking inmate William Coleman inched forward Wednesday after a brief status conference before a Rockville judge but not before the judge denied an odd request from Coleman's attorney to set...
ACLU Asks United Nations
To Intervene in Hunger Strike
The American Civil Liberties Union wrote the United Nations Monday asking for its Special Rapporteur on Torture to review the Connecticut Correction Department's treatment of hunger striking inmate, William Coleman. The ACLU wants the UN to advise the state to...
ACLU Condemns Force Feeding of Prisoner
William Coleman, the prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for more than a year, unexpectedly had a feeding tube inserted down his nose and into his stomach Thursday morning at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, according to his lawyer....
Department of Correction: no press visits to hunger striking inmate
Reporters can not visit hunger-striking prisoner William Coleman for interviews the Connecticut Department of Correction said this week, citing "safety and security" concerns and saying no further explanation would be released. Since cancelling an interview scheduled for September 30...
Op-Ed: Hearing William Coleman's Hunger Strike
Editor's note: The views expressed in this editorial are those of the author. Connecticut prison inmate William Coleman has been on a hunger strike for a year and started refusing liquids on Tuesday, which means without intervention, he may...
Prisoner's Hunger Strike Reaches One Year Mark
(Updated 2:38 p.m.) It's been one year since inmate William B. Coleman stopped eating solid food to protest his rape conviction. "Today, to mark the one year anniversary of his hunger strike, Bill has stopped taking all fluids," a...
ACLU Asks Court to Vacate Decision on Hunger Strike
The ACLU went to court Tuesday and filed this motion to prevent the state from force feeding a prisoner who has waged a hunger strike for almost 10-months to protest his conviction. A court ruling in January gave the...
Judge Ends Prisoner Hunger Strike
Hartford Superior Court Judge James T. Graham ended a prisoner's hunger strike Wednesday when he gave the state Corrections Department permission to force feed the man at MacDougal Walker Correctional Institute in Suffield. The hunger strike won't draw "anymore...
State Asks Court to End Prisoner's 3-Month Hunger Strike
Dressed in an orange jumpsuit that looked several sizes too big for his now slender body an inmate from MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institute tried to explain to Hartford Superior Court Judge James T. Graham Monday why he's been on a hunger...
Can the legislature close the loophole in the states gun laws?
It didn't pass last year, or the year before that, but for the last six years law enforcement has asked lawmakers for something that would help them keep illegal guns off the street. This year's attempt, (House Bill 5818), makes...
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