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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed a law that expedites court appearances for juvenile offenders, gives Superior Court judges the option to put minors on GPS monitoring and allows law enforcement broader access to juvenile records.
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The Connecticut-based social justice group has focused on the issue of youth in the justice system through their movement, #InvestInMeCT, for two years.
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State lawmakers concluded their 2022 session by working to pass several gun control and abortion rights bills, as well as a first-in-the-nation two-year ban on crypto mining.
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A proposed law in New York that would allow most conviction records to be automatically sealed after a waiting period passed the State Senate on Wednesday, but its future in the Assembly is less clear.
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The legislative session is scheduled to end on Thursday, and Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature hope to accomplish several major issues, including further protecting abortion rights and more gun safety measures.
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Republicans and even some Democrats, like New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have called for rollbacks to the state’s “raise the age” law that took 16- and 17-year-olds charged with non-violent crimes and charged them as youth instead of adults. Now, new research points to limited public safety benefits of these laws.
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This week on the Full Story we take a closer look at the experience of people who have survived incarceration and thrived after doing time.
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Republicans are concerned about a surge of juvenile crime. But Democrats are opposed to any rollback of the law enforcement reforms that were passed in the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020.
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The goal of the act is to end discrimination of formerly incarcerated people who are looking for jobs, housing or to further their education.
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Connecticut GOP lawmakers are proposing legislation to deal with an uptick in car thefts compared to last year. They’d like Democrats to agree to a…