Department of Corrections

Coalition Highlights Needed Investments in DOC to Create True “Second Chance Society”

February 24, 2023March 14, 2023

Justice Reinvestment Coalition advocates held a press conference on Friday, February 24th, at 3:30 PM in Hearing Room 1D of the Legislative Office Building. Advocates and partners highlighted the Coalition’s funding proposals addressing the staffing crisis, improving medical attention, mental health supports, and reentry programs, while providing more oversight throughout DOC healthcare. The Coalition is

COVID-19

COVID, cash bail and ‘drive-by therapy’: a deadly combination

August 20, 2020

When prison officials found Daniel Ocasio lifeless on his bunk last week at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center with a COVID-19 mask wrapped around his neck, he became the third incarcerated person to die by suicide in Connecticut this year. Ocasio, 32, had only been at the Montville prison a week when he died, unable to

COVID-19

Unease Increases Among Inmates, DOC Employees

May 26, 2020

Inmates in the state prison system are becoming increasingly aggressive toward staff due to the way the coronavirus pandemic is being handled, according to union officials and prison employees. There’s also a shortage of healthcare staff to deal with the increasing number of inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19, workers said, adding that the

Connecticut

Healthcare Safe Staffing Task Force Recommends Adding 253 Frontline Positions to Meet Basic Needs of Inmate Care at DOC

May 16, 2019

Reaching safe staffing levels to provide basic inmate healthcare in Connecticut’s prisons would require hiring 253 additional caregivers. That is the recommendation conveyed Thursday by a task force constituted by SEIU 1199 union members who are frontline healthcare staff at the Department of Correction. “The commissioner tasked us with forming a staffing subcommittee to determine

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Coalition Highlights Needed Investments in DOC to Create True “Second Chance Society”

Healthcare Safe Staffing Task Force Recommends Adding 253 Frontline Positions to Meet Basic Needs of Inmate Care at DOC

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