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Skip to main content Former CT death row inmates are moving to general population. Correction workers say they weren t informed. Lisa Backus FacebookTwitterEmail Four of the 10 former death row prisoners have already been transferred to a facility in Suffield as the state prepares to close Northern Correctional Institution.File photo Union officials said the state Department of Correction failed to inform them about former death row prisoners being transferred to other facilities as Connecticut prepares to close its maximum security prison. “There was no notice,” said AFSCME Local 391 President Collin Provost, who represents 1,500 DOC employees, including correction officers, kitchen supervisors, maintenance staff, correction counselors and others. “It’s discouraging when you get a call from one of your members saying, ‘Hey a death row inmate wound up in my general population, why didn’t they tell anyone?’” ....
Skip to main content Former CT death row inmates are moving to general population. Correction workers say they weren t informed. Lisa Backus FacebookTwitterEmail A sign at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers.File photo. Union officials said the state Department of Correction failed to inform them about former death row prisoners being transferred to other facilities as Connecticut prepares to close its maximum security prison. “There was no notice,” said AFSCME Local 391 President Collin Provost, who represents 1,500 DOC employees, including correction officers, kitchen supervisors, maintenance staff, correction counselors and others. “It’s discouraging when you get a call from one of your members saying, ‘Hey a death row inmate wound up in my general population, why didn’t they tell anyone?’” ....
Prosecutors believed justice was served nearly two decades ago when Adrian Peeler was sentenced to a combined 60 years in state and federal prisons for his roles in Bridgeport’s cocaine trade and the 1999 killings of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy’s mother. ....