An Inmate Had Asthma And Diabetes. The State Transferred Him To The Prison With Most COVID Deaths.
Cloe Poisson / CTMirror.org When her son Michael told her in June that he was being transferred to the Osborn Correctional Institution from a prison in Newtown, Dorothea Ferrigon thought his two-year ordeal was almost over. Osborn’s location in Somers was much closer to the family’s Bloomfield home, which meant it would be easier to visit him. Even better, he’d been placed on a waiting list for a halfway house that would likely be in the Hartford area. His release, it appeared, was imminent. But then COVID struck the prisons, the state Department of Correction halted visitation...
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