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To curb the introduction of drugs into the prison system, the state has hired a Florida-based firm to scan inmate mail, check it for contraband and then send digital copies of the mail to each prison.

For Jessica Brown, whose husband Michael is an inmate at Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Clayton, sending letters to her spouse is one of the primary ways she communicates with him. But starting Feb. 1, Jessica will have to send letters to her husband to a private corporation in Florida called Securus Technologies. There, […]

NEW BRITAIN - United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut has a new president and CEO. ...

After a months-long search, United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut has named a new president and CEO. The nonprofit network’s board of directors announced Tuesday that Eric Harrison, most recently the president and CEO of a United Way chapter in Ventura County, California, will assume leadership of the Connecticut organization on Feb. 22. Harrison will succeed Paula S. Gilberto, who announced her retirement in May. Gilberto has headed the affiliate since 2016.

The state’s Corrections Department says it has stopped placing women in solitary confinement and now caps all stays at a maximum of 30 days. Advocates are excited by the news, but uncertain if the policy is true.

Reports of Republican poll watchers and others disrupting and harassing Lynchburg poll workers on Election Day have prompted discussion on emergency protocols and the potential for criminal charges.

Five years ago, Jamie Stewart had never read Charles Dickens' immortal Yuletide novella, "A Christmas Carol."

New Mexicos prisons continue to see high infection rates — despite about 95 percent of inmates being fully-vaccinated.

New Mexicos prisons continue to see high infection rates — despite about 95 percent of inmates being fully-vaccinated.

New Mexicos prisons continue to see high infection rates — despite about 95 percent of inmates being fully-vaccinated.