Prisons

The national nonprofit Freedom Reads, in partnership with the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, will send 42 new handcrafted bookcases to three Connecticut prisons.

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.

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

Controversy swirled last month around Carleton J. Giles, the pastor and former police officer removed by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont as chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles after a backlash to the dramatic increase in the commutation of prison sentences.

A controversial former chair of Connecticut’s Board of Pardons and Paroles has won state Senate confirmation to serve another term on the board.

The art gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University is giving visitors a glimpse into the lives of those serving time and previously incarcerated in the state prison system.

A Stamford woman is suing Connecticut after it tried to collect inheritance money it says she owed for a prison term.

This is the first Christmas that Connecticut prisoners will be able to make and receive phone calls for free. The state was the first in the nation to stop charging for prisoner calls.

A special program designed to shelter corrections officers in hotels during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, using millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding, was repeatedly abused by prison workers, according to an ongoing state investigation.

70% of people in jails and prisons around the country have at least one diagnosed mental health or substance abuse problem, according to a new report from the National Center for State Courts.