Correction Accountability News Today

Everybody in, especially those left out Systemic racism permeates Connecticuts policies on prisons in many ways. Its time to fix that. In the wake of the spate of gun violence massacres, resuming again with deadly consequences, we are at a familiar crossroads: Do we revert to our usual, American individualized ‘othering,’, or do we reconcile that there is no ‘them’- only ‘us,’ that we refuse to claim? State Rep. Anne Hughes I’m campaigning to reframe the American ‘us’ from som...

Advocates push to end solitary confinement at CT prisons Lisa Backus FacebookTwitterEmail A woman gestures through the sunroof of a passing car during a protest outside the Bridgeport Correctional Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. April 15, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media For Colleen Lord’s son, a struggle with correction officers put the accused parole violator in solitary confinement, where, she tearfully recalled, he died in March 2019. Joining lawmakers and advocates Monday, Lord sh...