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Connecticut | Opinion
Column: Not much discussion about suicide at Connecticut casinos
Thursday, January 13, 2011  

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"We don't hear very often about suicides at the casinos, but I suspect that there are more of them than authorities tell us about.

State police did tell us about a woman from Plainfield who was found dead inside a car in July at the Two Trees Inn at Foxwoods Resort Casino, a suicide victim.

But police were much cagier when someone jumped off the parking garage at MGM Grand in 2008, refusing for a long time to even disclose the man's name.

The state Department of Public Safety continued to refuse to release records relating to the MGM suicide and eventually appealed a ruling by the state Freedom of Information Commission that the records should be public.

A Superior Court judge last summer finally ordered most of the records to be released.

I thought about that case recently while perusing a court file in Mashantucket for a case brought by the son of a New Hampshire man who jumped off the fifth level of an exterior stairwell at Foxwoods in July 2006."

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