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Email* Submit A correction officer from New London who is charged with sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman while she was in custody at the Niantic women's prison appeared in court Thursday morning. Wesley Applegate, 38, of 100 Ocean Ave. was charged Monday with second-degree sexual assault in an incident at York Correctional Institution in November. He was arraigned in person at New London Superior Court on Thursday morning before Judge Shari Murphy after being released on a $50,000 bond, and pleaded not guilty. Applegate was arrested on a warrant by Connecticut Sta...

MINNEAPOLIS — When her 11-year-old son Jacob was kidnapped by a stranger in a mask holding a gun, Patty Wetterling wanted to know how this could have happened. What did the cops need to catch predators that they didn't already have? That was 1989, and her questions led to the creation of Minnesota's first sex offender registry in 1991. Back then, it was a private list designed to quickly show law enforcement if convicted sex and kidnapping offenders lived in an area by requiring them to register their addresses. Thirty years later, Minnesota's list has swelled to more than 18,000 active ...

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered that correctional officers wear body cameras and that surveillance cameras be installed at five California prisons citing repeated abuse of inmates with

Published March 11. 2021 9:57PM  HARTFORD (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Connecticut prison officials are imposing detention conditions that are too harsh on a former death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer, ordering the state to relax those conditions. Richard Reynolds, convicted of killing Waterbury officer Walter Williams in 1992, is detained at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers under the highest Level 5 risk level. He says he is confined to his cell 21 to 22 hours a day and has no interaction with any inmates in the general population — co...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ten new cases of COVID-19 have been reported at the state prison in Newport, the Department of Corrections said Thursday.