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WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Kelan Lyons to discuss his article, “New Jersey mostly got rid of cash bail. Why hasn’t Connecticut?“ as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.
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The Shinnecock tribe has been given 100 Southampton Villages beach passes after fighting for free access to the beach.
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Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday defended her opposition to make more changes to the state’s bail reform laws.
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Recently released data from New York’s court system shows that in the second year of bail reform, the number of people rearrested while awaiting trial for their first alleged crime edged down 5%.
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Governor Hochul defends the plan to change overtime pay for farm workers.
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WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Kelan Lyons to discuss his article, “The problem of cash bail in CT: ‘They just cannot claw their way out’,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.
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A man who accosted U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin on stage as the Republican campaigned for governor will remain in custody while a federal judge considers his lawyer's plea to release the Army veteran, who he said was in an alcoholic relapse.
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Fewer people are jailed in Connecticut today than in 2008. But the cash bail system keeps those who can't buy their way out imprisoned.
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is outraged that Congress failed to pass legislation to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.
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Public safety issues are dominating the governor’s race in New York in recent days as Republican candidate Lee Zeldin calls for repealing the state’s bail reform laws and Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul tells police chiefs that she supports more funding for law enforcement.