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“My children call me mother, Ma, mommy. It depends on the day,” Rep. Robyn Porter, a Democrat from New Haven, told lawmakers.

Over the past decade, Connecticut has been able to cut its prison population in nearly half and criminal justice advocates say that number can go even lower if you think of corrections as rehabilitation. That’s why a group of Connecticut policy makers and thought leaders toured prisons in Norway to learn best practices. Our Accountability Project tagged along to see what the group learned.

Connecticut’s program to replace lost wages and cover medical expenses for frontline workers who caught COVID has stalled due to a low profile and a complicated application process.

Reply May 17, 2021 Just a few days after Mother's Day, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to pass legislation that could help close Connecticut's wage gap and increase pay transparency by requiring employers to disclose salary ranges on job postings. Subscribe Passage of the measure is also timed with Moms Equal Pay Day, which fell on Wednesday, May 5 – a day that recognizes it takes an extra five months for a mother's average pay (working full time, year round) to catch up with what a father earns in one year. Mothers in the United States earn on average just 75 cen...

One of those workers was 40-year-old Nora Garcia of New Haven, who worked cleaning hospitals.