This story has been updated. A report by Disability Rights Connecticut released on Tuesday accused the Department of ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant prisoners is not unusual, even when the target is mentally ill.

Police said Baez was held on $250,000 bond, transferred to the Connecticut Department of Corrections and arraigned in the Superior Court in Vernon on Monday. They said he was also charged for an ...

For attorney DeVaughn Ward, the experience of incarcerated individuals during their time in the Department of Correction should be three things: humane, dignified and focused on rehabilitation.

The Connecticut Department of Corrections and the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General told News 8 it cannot comment on matters involving pending litigation.

I mean, hundreds of thousands of strip searches … it sounds like people are having strip searches tens of times a year,” a state senator said. “It’s hard to believe that that’s actually ...

Police obtained an arrest warrant on Tuesday charging Morkis with manslaughter in the first degree. Police said he is in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Correction on unrelated charges.

This story has been updated. A report by Disability Rights Connecticut released on Tuesday accused the Department of Correction of failing to provide the correct medical care to an incarcerated ...