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The 2025 legislative session has come to a close, and it was certainly a trying session for all. In a session where roughly 3,800 bills were introduced, only about 380 bills were passed, rounding up to a passing rate of about ten percent.

Housing is the most critical and fundamental part of reentry, but far too often the most difficult to achieve. The more I see it the more I understand why people go back to jail. HB 6948 is about giving people a fair opportunity to find a safe place to live.

Since its launch almost six years ago, ACLU Smart Justice Connecticut has been, and continues to be, a vital part of the ACLU of Connecticut’s success before, during, and after the legislative session. Thank you, Smart Justice!

The ACLU of Connecticut approached the 2023 legislative session with ambitious goals to improve access to the ballot box, begin holding prosecutors accountable, and protect children from police lying and threats. 

Every person should have a chance at hope. The criminal legal system should be open to the idea of redemption and rehabilitation. We join the call for the CT Board of Pardons and Paroles (BOPP) to re-start commutations.

State’s Attorney should be representing the interests of the people of Connecticut—that includes incarcerated and formally incarcerated individuals. PEOPLE LIKE ME.

Every Connecticut resident is affected by the decisions made by Connecticut prosecutors, known as “state’s attorneys".

Adolescence happens on a spectrum, and people who convicted when they were under the age of 26 should receive the same parole opportunities as young people under the age of 18 currently do.

Strip searches are dehumanizing, humiliating, state-sanctioned trauma and sexual violence.