News & Commentary
Mar 22, 2021
Pandemics require more compassionate releases from prisons
Prisons are unhealthy places all the time, especially during disasters, epidemics, pandemics, and other public health emergencies.
Mar 10, 2021
Smart Justice testifies in support of voting rights for people on parole
Smart Justice leader Will Roberts testified before the Government Administration and Elections Committee hearing today in support of H.B. 6578, bill that would restore the right to vote for people who are on parole in Connecticut. Here is what he told the committee:
Mar 10, 2021
Smart Justice testifies in support of accountability for State's Attorneys
"There is no reason State’s Attorneys should be exempt from public accountability. Their job is to represent the interests of the people of Connecticut. All of Connecticut: that includes incarcerated and formally incarcerated individuals. People like me."
Mar 10, 2021
Smart Justice testifies in support of strong Clean Slate
"Living a life with a criminal record has been a challenge I don’t think anyone can understand unless they’ve experienced it firsthand."
By Gus Marks-Hamilton
Mar 10, 2021
The death penalty showed why we need prosecutorial accountability.
History could keep repeating itself without rules to start holding state’s attorneys to commonsense best practices.
By Kelly McConney Moore
Mar 08, 2021
State’s attorneys’ term lengths are extreme outliers in Connecticut and across the country
In our state, the top prosecutors in each judicial district go for eight years without any external oversight. A bill in the legislature could change that.
By Kelly McConney Moore
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