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Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven voters support moving money from policing budgets into other services, using non-police responses to issues related to public health.
In a letter to lawyers for the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC), the ACLU of Connecticut announced “systemic patterns of non-compliance by the Department of Correction” with multiple measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the state’s prisons.
HARTFORD – Tolland State's Attorney Matthew Gedansky today announced that he would not pursue charges against members of the CREST regional SWAT unit who killed Jose “Jay” Soto in Manchester in April.
A group of civil rights organizations today tiled a federal lawsuit againstthe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to challenge its rollback of critical protections under the Fair Housing Act.
After a brief search limited solely to current Connecticut prosecutors, the Criminal Justice Commission today was deadlocked between both candidates for the position of Inspector General.
The DOC today announced that it would close the COVID-19 unit at Northern Correctional Institution and instead place that unit in the MacDougall building of MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution. The following is a reaction from Claudine Fox, ACLU-CT campaign manager.