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Connecticut Department of Correction commissioner Angel Quiros has said his agency would recommend criminal charges against any employees implicated in fraud while using a pandemic hotel program created to quarantine prison workers.

Connecticut Department of Correction commissioner Angel Quiros has said his agency would recommend criminal charges against any employees implicated in fraud while using a pandemic hotel program created to quarantine prison workers.

“There will be a referral to outside law enforcement if we find any evidence of fraud,” Quiros told The Connecticut Mirror outside of a federal courtroom in Bridgeport during an unrelated civil trial regarding the department’s use of solitary confinement.

Hartford — There are at least 35 instances where Connecticut Department of Correction employees potentially misused a COVID-19 program that provided workers with hotel rooms during the height of the p...

CT corrections officers abused pandemic hotel program, audit says- A special program designed to shelter corrections officers in hotels during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, using millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding, was repeatedly abused by prison workers, according to an ongoing state...

Continuing state investigations have found at least 35 instances where Connecticut Department of Correction employees potentially misused a COVID-19 program that provided workers with hotel rooms during the height of the pandemic

There are at least 35 instances where Connecticut Department of Correction employees potentially misused a COVID-19 program that provided workers with hotel...

A Connecticut investigation has found that prison employees misused a COVID-19 program that provided them with hotel rooms during the pandemic.

A special program designed to shelter corrections officers in hotels during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, using millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding, was repeatedly abused by ...

A federally-funded program created during the Covid-19 pandemic designed to provide Connecticut’s corrections officers with hotel accommodations was repeatedly abused by the officers, according to a state investigation.