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Everybody in, especially those left out Systemic racism permeates Connecticut's policies on prisons in many ways. It's time to fix that. In the wake of the spate of gun violence massacres, resuming again with deadly consequences, we are at a familiar crossroads: Do we revert to our usual, American individualized ‘othering,’, or do we reconcile that there is no ‘them’- only ‘us,’ that we refuse to claim? State Rep. Anne Hughes I’m campaigning to reframe the American ‘us’ from some of y’all to “ALL of us all!” It’s time to claim we all belong to this place, this promis...

Advocates push to end solitary confinement at CT prisons Lisa Backus FacebookTwitterEmail A woman gestures through the sunroof of a passing car during a protest outside the Bridgeport Correctional Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. April 15, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media For Colleen Lord’s son, a struggle with correction officers put the accused parole violator in solitary confinement, where, she tearfully recalled, he died in March 2019. Joining lawmakers and advocates Monday, Lord shared her son’s story as she and two other mothers, whose sons were put in similar confinement, sho...