Kelan Lyons / CT Mirror

For at least the second consecutive year, people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails wrote letters to legislators to express their support for a bill that would reduce the Department of Correction’s use of solitary confinement.

A group has threatened to sue the state for discrimination if it doesn’t change the laws governing how the state supervises people acquitted of crimes because of serious mental health conditions.

A bill that would allow terminally ill patients access to medication that would end their lives cleared an important hurdle Friday afternoon, passing out of the Public Health Committee for the second consecutive year.

Members of the state’s Judiciary Committee agreed on Wednesday to consider legislation ending the prison system’s use of solitary confinement, resuming a conversation that ended abruptly last year with a governor’s veto.

Survivors of gun violence and those working in the community to stop its spread gathered at the Capitol Monday to urge legislators to create and fund an Office of Gun Violence Prevention and to declare gun violence a public health crisis.

43 year old man who sexually assaulted and robbed elderly woman in 1993 will be resentenced.

The Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted the sentences of 11 men who committed crimes when they were 25 or younger.

As of January 5th, 896 Department of Correction staff and 417 incarcerated people were COVID-19 positive.

The Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Michael Cox compassionate parole Wednesday morning, creating a path to release for the first person granted a commutation in two years.