About one year after 13 prisoners brought a federal lawsuit for allegedly suffering ailments related to radon exposure at the Garner Correctional Institution, current and former employees of the prison Thursday filed their own suit in state court.

The state lawsuit, filed in Waterbury Superior Court, comes on the heels of a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton heard that motion, and is weighing a decision. In the federal case, the state’s July 23 motion to dismiss alleges defendant, Connecticut Department of Correction Commissioner Scott Semple, has qualified immunity and that the state has sovereign immunity from such lawsuit.

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