Connecticut Department of Correction

An attorney wants the video of J’Allen Jones’ fatal beating by corrections officers at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown to be unsealed and released to the public as a part of the lawsuit against Connecticut's Department of Correction.

Connecticut's Manson Youth Institution will stop using solitary isolation to discipline children following an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and the state Department of Correction after an investigation.

Hilary Carpenter, Governor Ned Lamont’s pick for the newly created ombudsman job at the Connecticut Department of Correction, has tried to reassure skeptics she’ll be independent.

Advocates voiced concerns that a state ombudsman with the power to investigate CT prison conditions and complaints hasn't been appointed.

Incarcerated people say the recent rise in assaults on correction officers is being used to undercut an increase in out-of-cell time.

The bill would require Connecticut’s Department of Correction to study the introduction of full-body scanners and make recommendations to lawmakers by the beginning of next year.

A Connecticut prison guard who was fired in 2021, several years after posting what was determined by the state to be an anti-Muslim meme on Facebook, has been reinstated to his job.

Concerns arise after Republicans appoint two Connecticut Department of Correction affiliates to the panel, known as the Correction Advisory Committee.