Garner Correctional News Today

A Walker Correctional Institute inmate allegedly assaulted a medical physician and a correctional officer on Wednesday morning, according to police. Joe Baltas,...

Joe Baltas, after being searched for contraband, was able to hide a filed-down toothbrush and stabbed two officers.

An inmate was charged on Wednesday with criminal attempt to commit murder after he stabbed two correctional officers with a makeshift weapon at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown last month, according to Connecticut State Police.

A Waterbury man who died while in custody died by suicide, according to the Connecticut Medical Examiner's Office.

A melee between inmates broke out Friday night at the Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville, according to the union representing correction officers.

A corrections officer at Garner Correctional Institute was seriously injured after being stabbed Tuesday morning by an inmate according to union officials.

WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Jaden Edison to discuss his article, “New DOC oversight panel appointments alarm advocates,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.

Cops responding to a 911 call from the home allegedly found Zielinski covered in his...