criminal justice

Connecticut has temporarily paused erasures while they hire an outside consultant to decide the best path forward. Advocates, and the 100,000-plus people waiting for a clean slate, are fed up with the delays and lack of communication from the state.

At an event with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and local district attorneys, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed spending bills that further rolled back bail reforms.

Connecticut criminal justice advocates want the legislature to support a bill that would allow incarcerated individuals to vote.

In Connecticut, violent crime declined between 2020 and 2021 according to statistics released on Thursday by the state’s Office of Policy and Management.

55% percent of Nassau County police’s use of force incidents are unexplained, according to an analysis by the police reform group Long Island United.

A West Hartford resident used multiple internet platforms including his former employer to distribute child pornography, according to the Department of Justice.

It took fish fries, fundraisers and GoFundMe to bail Bryan Jordan out of a Connecticut jail. Was it enough to keep him home?

More than a third of all criminal defendants on Long Island are Black men but the people prosecuting their cases are overwhelmingly white. In 1998, Donald…

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has announced new members of a state board that now has the power to revoke police credentials, in addition to training…

A federal court has rejected former Connecticut Governor John Rowland’s plea for an early release from probation. It is the second time Rowland has served…