Senate Bill 666, An Act Concerning Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Certain Mental or Emotional Impairments and Mental Health Care for Correctional Staff, Emergency Medical Staff and Dispatchers

At the ACLU-CT, we know that prisons are not healthy places for anyone in them. This is not just true right now, in the midst of a global pandemic, but at all times. Because of prison conditions, prisons are places where physical illnesses, like Hepatitis C,1 HIV/AIDS,2 tuberculosis,3 and, yes, COVID-19,4 are able to spread quickly among both the people incarcerated there and the people working there.5The mental and physical strains that mass incarceration places on all caught in its maw – employees and imprisoned people alike – all deserve attention and funding.