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Linda Mangano has been released from federal prison after serving five months of a 15-month sentence for a corruption scheme during her husband’s tenure as Nassau County executive.

Connecticut’s largest prison, MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, was placed on a multi-week lockdown this winter due to a high number of COVID-19 cases.

Former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano’s prison surrender has been delayed two weeks. A federal judge will consider allowing Mangano to remain free while he appeals his corruption conviction.

Francis Smith spent 70 years in jail after he was said to be an accomplice to the shooting that killed a security guard at a Greenwich Yacht Club in 1950.

81% of female inmates and 28% of male inmates have chronic mental health issues, according to the most recent state sentencing commission report.

Christina Quaranta, the executive director of the Connecticut Justice Alliance, said Lamont’s plan would increase harassment and prosecution of youth in the state.

The Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, which bar excessive punishment and provide equal protection under the law, the report concluded.

The facility has 80 officer vacancies.

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