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Justice
Stories about the justice system in Connecticut: Law enforcement, courts, prisons and offenders, immigration, juvenile justice, and public corruption.
Posted inPolitics
CT lawmakers unite behind State Police raises, not accountability law
A partisan divide remains over the degree to which a 2020 CT police accountability law contributes to struggles in recruiting.
Posted inJustice
Willard facility slated to close as prison population declines
Willard will join the Radgowski and Northern prisons on the list of CT correctional facilities that have shuttered operations since 2021.
Posted inJustice
Lamont commits to fully implementing Connecticut’s ‘clean slate’ law in 2023
About 44,000 people with marijuana-related misdemeanors have begun getting their records expunged as part of clean slate’s implementation.
Posted inJustice
BEST OF 2022: Connecticut’s first Black chief public defender embraces work ahead
TaShun Bowden-Lewis, who’s wanted to work in public defense since she was a child, has spent her career fighting for clients in Connecticut.
Posted inJustice
BEST OF 2022: The problem of cash bail in CT: ‘They just cannot claw their way out’
There are fewer people imprisoned today than in 2008. But the cash bail system can still keep people locked up, unable to buy their way out.
Posted inJustice
BEST OF 2022: In their own words: Prisoners testify on solitary confinement bill
The incarcerated testified on a bill that would reduce the use of solitary confinement and establish independent oversight of the DOC.
Posted inJustice
Edward T. “Ned” Coll Dies; Hartford Activist Fought Racism, Poverty and Closed Beaches
Coll, best known for his efforts to dramatize the lack of public access to most CT salt water beaches, fought racism and poverty in Hartford.
Posted inJustice
Jury: DOC officials violated Richard Reynolds’ constitutional rights
The jury found that the CT Department of Correction enforced rules that confined Reynolds to a cell for 22 hours a day, among other things.
Posted inJustice
Attorney General to seek transfer of Sandy Hook fund away from union
The CT Attorney General’s office wants to remove a union from distributing a fund designed to help Sandy Hook first responders and teachers.
Posted inJustice
10 years after Sandy Hook, the police who were there still struggle to forget
Ten years after Sandy Hook, a Newtown police officer remembers the sobbing of fellow officers. Many can’t shake the memories of that day.
Posted inInvestigations
CT DOC chief: Hotel program abuse could lead to criminal charges
Commissioner Angel Quiros said corrections staff who his agency finds abused a COVID hotel program will face criminal charges.
Posted inJustice
Connecticut to get $127M from CVS, Walgreens in opioid settlement
The money is part of a $10.7 billion settlement. CVS will pay $5 billion over 10 years and Walgreens will pay $5.7 billion over 15 years.
Posted inEconomic Development
Recreational pot will go on sale in CT Jan. 10
Adults can buy recreational pot in CT starting Jan. 10 at nine dispensaries that got the OK to convert from a medical to hybrid retail model.
Posted inJustice
CT’s ‘clean slate law’ faces delay, and supporters yearn for answers
Full implementation of the CT law, which will erase misdemeanors and certain felonies from some people’s records, is pushed to late 2023.