“A $1.3 million verdict exposed prison brutality. Now DOC wants to hide the evidence.” Last October, a federal jury in Connecticut sent a resounding message, awarding $1.3 million to an incarcerated ...
HB 5567 would grant correction ombuds resources to investigate medical complaints, require DOC to fix problems with ...
The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A second inmate at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown has died in less than a week, bringing the number of incarcerated ...
Two nurses and a lieutenant at the Bridgeport Correctional Center violated state law by failing to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other emergency measures for an inmate with ALS, and then ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Correction (CT DOC) is investigating three recent deaths of inmates at state prisons. ‘I am scared’: Friends, family voice concern for inmates ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut prisons are “operating in state of sustained institutional failure,” according to a new report from the Office of the Correction Ombuds. It’s a 60 page report that ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of ...