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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

State Employees

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

May 24, 2021May 24, 2021

Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will rally alongside service recipients and community allies Monday to demand that the state fills nearly 1,500 healthcare vacancies in critical areas of our public safety net. Development and mental health services from the Department of

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OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Sunday, April 4th, we will observe Easter, a Christian tradition celebrating the defeat of death and the hope for redemption. But April 4th is also the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis. I was there then, in Memphis, a young girl in 1968, when it seemed

Connecticut

Moral Budget Requires Funding State Services to Meet Growing Need of CT Residents

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021

The State of Connecticut must provide adequate funding for public services to save lives. The COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects have magnified the importance of building a robust structure to address unprecedented need for services the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Correction.

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

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

June 15, 2020February 18, 2021

State residents may feel confined by social and work restrictions brought on by COVID-19, but for prisoners and workers in Connecticut’s jails the luxury of self-isolating at home doesn’t exist. The idea of “loosening up” and finding the “new normal” in our prisons is a long way off. We’re still “popping positives” for COVID-19 while

Connecticut

Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut

May 29, 2020

Connecticut Hartford Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut Por Redaccion de la Voz Hispana – May 26, 2020 30 0 Share Por Larry Dorman HARTFORD.- La fuerza laboral del Departamento de Corrección expresó su frustración con la agencia en sus intentos de proteger a

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

Even with expanding COVID-19 testing, DOC employees describe ‘a perfect storm’ within Connecticut prisons and jails

May 23, 2020

Even as the state Department of Correction significantly expands COVID-19 testing of incarcerated people, agency employees say that deep concerns persist about adequate social distancing and medical staffing in Connecticut prisons and jails. Gabby Bottino, an LPN at Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, called conditions there “a perfect storm,” adding that the facility struggled with

COVID-19

Fox 61 – Corrections employees put on rolling rally to protest Covid-19 conditions at work

April 24, 2020April 27, 2021

Car horns blared outside the headquarters of the Department of Corrections in Wethersfield where employees who work the prison system held a “Public Safety Caravan”. About 30 cars adorned with signs and full of workers showed up to voice their concerns. Shirley Watson, a social worker at Macdougall-Walker Correctional Facility in Somers insisted that inmates

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

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

Moral Budget Requires Funding State Services to Meet Growing Need of CT Residents

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

Trabajadores del Depto. de Corrección buscan acción estatal para detener contagio de COVID-19 en prisiones de Connecticut

Even with expanding COVID-19 testing, DOC employees describe ‘a perfect storm’ within Connecticut prisons and jails

Fox 61 – Corrections employees put on rolling rally to protest Covid-19 conditions at work

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