Cromwell seventh-grader s words spark hope for Sen. Chris Murphy
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CROMWELL A local seventh-grader gas become a voice of “hope” for one Connecticut’s U.S. senators, and a source of pride for the town’s school district.
Cole Leavitt was a winner in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest sponsored by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.
Cole’s essay was chosen from nearly 2,800 submissions statewide, school officials said. In all, 15 students from elementary, middle and high schools across the state were recognized for their essays in what is now the fifth year of Murphy’s annual essay contest. Three students were chosen from each of the state’s five congressional districts.
State to close supermax prison, Northern Correctional Institution
Kelan Lyons, CTMirror.org
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A sign at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers.File photo.
Northern Correctional Institution, the state’s controversial “supermax” prison located in Somers, will close by July 1, the Department of Correction announced to its staff on Monday.
The closure is the first since Enfield Correctional Institution was shuttered on Jan. 23, 2018. There are 5,000 fewer people in state correctional facilities since then. The most precipitous decline has been since the onset of the pandemic; there are 3,377 fewer people in prison or jail today than on March 1.
“I have been transparent about my intentions to close facilities, ever since [Gov. Ned] Lamont announced that I was his choice to be the next commissioner,” Commissioner Designate Angel Quiros told DOC employees in a memo Monday. “The decision to close Northern can be largely attributed to the signi