Health Services

24 Wolcott Hill Road
Wethersfield, CT 06109
Phone: (860) 692-7780
Fax: (860) 692-7646
Directions.

Director: Robert Richeson

The Department of Correction provides comprehensive health care to the offender population that meets a community standard of care, and includes medical, mental health, dental, addiction and ancillary services, in compliance with applicable state and federal laws and consent decrees

Mental Health Treatment

The Department of Correction has established a highly progressive approach to the treatment of inmates with significant mental health needs.  The Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown has been designated as the Department's dedicated mental health facility for adult male offenders requiring significant mental health treatment.  Both accused and sentenced offenders who are classified as requiring that level of care are assigned here.  Individualized treatment plans, based upon an offender's level of functionality include extensive programming and therapy, in a group and one on one setting.  The staff at the facility, both custody and mental health, operates through an integrated team approach which insures a continuity of custody, care, treatment and control. The program is designed to return as many of these offenders as is possible to the ability to function in either a general population prison setting or ultimately to life in the community.

Health Services also established the Hospice and Palliative Care Program.

CT  Department of Correction Mental Health Services for Incarcerated Population 2024

Consultant's Report on DOC Inmate Medical Services