No action against DOC following fatal strangulation of inmate, inspector general rules
The Connecticut Office of Inspector General will not take any action in the death of an inmate who was allegedly strangled to death by a cellmate who told reportedly authorities he asked Department of ...
CT official seeks accountability bill for prison guards, body-camera plan in wake of inmate death
Connecticut's Department of Correction ombudsman is seeking the same video release laws for correction officers as police ...
In call for release of video of man’s prison death, CT correction ombudsman: ‘public needs to heal’
I mean, hundreds of thousands of strip searches … it sounds like people are having strip searches tens of times a year,” a ...
Family of inmate who died in custody renews call for state to release video
At the Legislative Office Building Tuesday, a number of activists honored the 7th anniversary of an inmate who died in a ...
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Connecticut DOC investigates inmate's untimely death at MacDougall-Walker
The Connecticut Department of Correction is investigating the death of an incarcerated individual at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. The death occurred early Thursday ...
Connecticut man held captive by stepmom for 20 years weighed only 68 pounds: Police
A woman allegedly held her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forced ...
Connecticut woman says biological son was held captive by 'monsters' for 20 years: Reports
A Connecticut woman who identified herself as the biological mother of Kimberly Sullivan's stepson has reportedly spoken out ...
CT high-security prison incarcerates 547. Why correction officers are talking to some, one at a time
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.
Connecticut proposal would accelerate reductions in prison time
Connecticut's current five-year wait for incarcerated people to apply for sentence reductions would change to two years under legislative proposal.
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Borrowing from Norway, a Connecticut prison tries a new approach
Jay Lawrie, a Connecticut correction officer for 20 years ... Now in a second career as chairman of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven ...
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CT official seeks accountability bill for prison guards, body-camera plan in wake of inmate death
HARTFORD — As advocates continue to call for the release of sealed video related to J'Allen Jones, who died while in state Department of Correction ... Police in Connecticut have been required ...