Published December 21, 2020 •
Updated on December 21, 2020 at 7:45 pm
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The Connecticut Department of Correction announced that another prison inmate has died of COVID-19.
A 69-year-old man was transferred from the Agency s MacDougall-Walker Medical Isolation Unit to an outside hospital for treatment on Nov. 26 where he later died, officials said.
The man entered the correctional system in May of 2000 and was serving a 60-year sentence, suspended after 40 years, for aggravated first degree sexual assault and first degree kidnapping with a firearm.
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The state is considering early release for a Hartford man convicted of killing his cousin in 1994.
Attorneys for Clyde Meikle, who is serving 50 years for murdering Clifford Walker with a shotgun, have recommended he get out in 2022 after serving 28 years. The potential release has generated strong feelings from both state officials as well as the victim’s family.
There were several starts and stops during Meikle’s speech in a Dec. 18 sentence modification hearing that was conducted virtually. Through tears, he said he’s as guilty now as he was when he killed Walker.
“The love between my family is still there but my actions makes it unspeakable,” Meikle said.
The Department of Corrections announced another inmate death because of COVID-19 complications. The DOC said a 47-year-old man was transferred to an outside hospital for treatment on Nov. 28, where he later died. The man was serving a two and a half year sentence for sale of hallucinogen/narcotic substances as well as assault of a public safety, emergency medical, public… prisons Jun 9, 2020
“What they’re doing is ridiculous, illogical, and arbitrary.” Inmate Michael Liebowitz leveled that criticism toward the Connecticut Department of Correction’s response to the novel coronavirus. He called NBC Connecticut Investigates after watching our series of stories on an exclusive survey of 300 plus correction officers on how the DOC has handled the pandemic. So far seven inmates have died.
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Carr’s criminal history also includes state convictions for manslaughter with a firearm, weapons possession and drug offenses. (Shutterstock)
NEW HAVEN, CT Frank Carr, a 53-year-old Hamden man, was sent to federal prison Monday to serve more than 10 years for drug trafficking, a case that East Haven police helped to investigate.
This is his third federal conviction.
According to court documents and statements made in court, this matter stems from an investigation headed by the FBI s New Haven Safe Streets/Gang Task Force and New Haven Police Department that targeted drug trafficking and related acts of violence by members, former members and associates of the Island Brothers street gang in New Haven.
Weeks later when news spread about the inmate dying, Gonda told her the virus had already spread like wildfire in the unit.
Leiva said, When he told me that someone died, he told me someone came into the facility for a program but had no temperature but was asymptomatic yet was carrying COVID and got 40 inmates sick in the same wing.
From the reports handed down from the department of corrections, the numbers add up.
The week the deceased inmate was transferred to an outside hospital for treatment the Department of Corrections said 46 inmates tested positive, but the department says they are still following health and safety guidelines.