Courts & Corrections
NH Supreme Court Considers Camp Fatima Sex Abuse Lawsuit
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It’s now up to three judges whether or not a man who says he was raped by Fr. Karl Dowd is allowed to seek justice under the New Hampshire constitution.
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It’s now up to three judges whether or not a man who says he was raped by Fr. Karl Dowd is allowed to seek justice under the New Hampshire constitution.
The state’s first major witness called in the Matthew Millar murder trial, state prison Corrections Officer Josephine McDonough, didn’t see the alleged crime despite being in the middle of the violent altercation with Secure Psychiatric Unit patient Jason Rothe.
The only nurse on duty when Jason Rothe died inside New Hampshire state Prison for Men’s Secure Psychiatric Unit now has an immunity deal signed off by Attorney General John Formella.
Claremont’s Eagle Times saw multiple staffers at the local newspaper walk out this week saying they had not been paid, but owner Jay Lucas claims there’s no problem.
Attorney General John Formella knew that then-Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks conducted interviews in Jason Rothe’s death after she was told not to, yet he did not share his knowledge, according to documents unsealed this week.
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled there is nothing wrong with firing former New Hampshire State Rep. Jon Stone from his job as a corrections officer for his racist and homophobic comments.
A single botched indictment against one of the men charged in the (YDC) Sununu Youth Services Center child physical and sex abuse scandal delayed the trial, but the state will not say why.
A prosecutorial blunder found at the 11th hour is throwing one of the Sununu Youth Services Center sex abuse cases into disarray.
Ex-Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks won’t have to explain why she destroyed her notes from witness interviews she conducted in the aftermath of patient Jason Rothe’s April 2023 death at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord.