Montville ― About 20 inmates in a 60-person drug rehabilitation unit at Corrigan Correctional Center tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week, according to Ken Wright, the chief union steward fo.
Montville ― Behind the towering brick walls and barbed wire fences of the maximum-security Corrigan Correctional Center, a recent state law has created a dangerous situation for officers and inmates, .
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.
The number of incarcerated people housed in the Department of Correction’s COVID Recovery Unit has increased during the month of September, according to the agency, mirroring trends observed by Connecticut hospitals.
Connecticut Department of Correction officials plan to hire an external criminal justice consultant to review the state’s prison policies in response to an increasing number of incidents including assaults on staff members, which have roughly doubled since 2019.