State to close maximum-security Northern prison- HARTFORD (AP) Connecticut will be closing its highest security prison that was once home to the state’s death row by July 1, mostly because of the continuing drop in the statewide inmate population, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday.Lamont and.
A disability rights group has filed a lawsuit against state prison officials, alleging that isolating and shackling people with mental illness at the maximum-security Northern Correctional Institution is a violation of their civil rights.
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