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

  • February 24, 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

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State Employees

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

  • May 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

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

  • April 4, 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

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Connecticut

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

  • April 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

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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

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COVID-19

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

  • June 15, 2020

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.

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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

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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

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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

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COVID-19

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

  • April 24, 2020

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

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