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Top Bridgeport prosecutor addresses court backlog from pandemic
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State s Attorney Joseph T Corradino in the Bridgeport courthouse.Daniel Tepfer / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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State prosecutors and judges will work this week to eliminate the backlog at the Golden Hill Street courthouse in Bridgeport.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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BRIDGEPORT With the state’s first criminal trial now behind them, state officials are gearing up for the next step in the path to returning to “normal” in the state’s criminal justice system.
“Connecticut is getting past this pandemic, and going forward with this trial shows that the state’s attorney’s office and the judges are following the governor’s lead in returning the state’s business to normal,” said Bridgeport State’s Attorney Joseph Corradino following the conviction Wednesday of Larise King in the death of her husband. The case was decided by a
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SB 1018: Connecticut’s effort to increase prosecutorial accountability and why it will not work
Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division, CT OPM
Prosecutors hold people’s lives in their hands. Their decisions shape not only the futures of defendants, prisoners, and formerly incarcerated people, but also the overall extent of mass incarceration. Currently, the United States is the international leader for incarceration with almost 2.3 million people behind bars. Connecticut’s incarceration rates are no exception: before the COVID19 pandemic, about 60,000 Connecticut residents were locked up, under probation, or on parole. Roughly 16,000 of those people were incarcerated.
But the solution to mass incarceration is not simple; structural barriers exist which prevent the current legal procedures from holding prosecutors accountable. Connecticut’s Senate Bill 1018 is intended to address prosecutorial power and break down barriers to ending mass incarceration but does it?
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