The preliminary figures support the theory that Connecticut’s car theft spike was due to disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Kelan Lyons
Kelan is a Report For America Corps Member who covers the intersection of mental health and criminal justice for CT Mirror. Before joining CT Mirror, Kelan was a staff writer for City Weekly, an alt weekly in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a courts reporter for The Bryan-College Station Eagle, in Texas. He is originally from Philadelphia.
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Hearing on criminal justice bills crystallizes a divide between the parties
Republicans continue to spar with advocates over how to respond in an election year to an uptick in gun violence and car thefts.
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Families of Bridgeport women found dead testify for notification bill
A bill being considered by lawmakers would require police to tell family members their loved ones died within 24 hours of identifying their body.
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Aid-in-dying bill clears committee vote
A bill that would allow terminally ill patients access to medications that would end their lives cleared an important hurdle Friday.
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Public testifies on aid-in-dying legislation
Many stressed the importance of easing suffering, while disability rights advocates said a law could be changed in the future.
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Solitary confinement reemerges as major criminal justice issue for lawmakers
The Judiciary Committee agreed to hold a public hearing on solitary confinement. An hour earlier, the DOC commissioner said it didn’t exist in Connecticut prisons.
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Coalition urges lawmakers to open state Gun Violence Prevention Office
The rally came an hour after the Public Health Committee agreed to hold a public hearing on a related bill.
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CT Supreme Court tosses 60-year term of man judge called ‘superpredator’
The ” superpredator theory” relied on materially false racial stereotypes that perpetuate systemic inequities, the court wrote.
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Parole board shortens sentences of 11 men who committed crimes when they were young
With these commutations, the Board of Pardons and Paroles is recognizing the science of juvenile brain development.
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As omicron spreads, CT’s prison system isn’t spared
More than 1,000 Department of Correction employees and 600 incarcerated people have the virus.
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Best of 2021: After killing his cousin, Clyde Meikle found purpose in prison through service. Now he’s asking to go home.
Clyde Meikle is a “poster boy candidate” for release from prison. If he can’t get a sentence modification, who can?
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Best of 2021: Connecticut’s sole supermax prison is closing. What comes next for the men who used to be on death row?
Should those confined to prison for the rest of their lives be held on “special circumstances,” or is incarceration enough?
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Federal investigators: Conditions at youth prison violate children’s constitutional rights
Feds find that prison officials put kids in punitive solitary confinement, provide inadequate mental health and special education services.
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A cancer patient was sent to prison for DUI. Two months later, he was dead from COVID.
William Lamprecht told his sentencing judge, “I’m immunocompromised, you know. I’m 62 years old. It’s just a little scary.”
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Cox granted compassionate release, one month after commutation
Originally serving 75 years for several violent crimes, Cox could have died in prison if his sentence hadn’t been commuted.