Hotel Hooker Scandal

Title

Hotel Hooker Scandal

Description

In October of 2002, the Hartford Courant publishes a series of articles about the crisis of heroin use in Willimantic. The city has a disproportionate rate of heroin abuse for a small community, concentrated in Hotel Hooker, while the local police ignore open heroin use and prostitution. The reports garners so much attention, 60 Minutes does a feature on Willimantic's drug problem in June of 2003 and photographer Brad Clift is nominated for a Pulitzer prize.

Source

Tracy Gordon Fox, “Death at Hotel Hooker,” Hartford Courant, October 21, 2002.

Date

2002-10/2003-06

Contributor

horn_allen

Collection

Citation

“Hotel Hooker Scandal,” History Digitized, accessed October 3, 2024, http://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/884.

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