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.

An inmate in Cheshire was injured after he "stepped over" the railing of a housing unit Tuesday, falling several feet to the ...

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.

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 ...

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

they have a significant mental health unit that is one of the reforms that the Connecticut Department of Correction had launched some years ago. WSHU: Why are they trying to make this change?

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 ...