Kelan Lyons // CTMirror.org
Kelan Lyons // CTMirror.org
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The state will no longer have the ability to claw back money that formerly incarcerated people win through lawsuits — unless individuals were convicted of “certain serious crimes.”Legislators considered a bill this session that would have eliminated the state’s authority to collect so-called prison debt if formerly incarcerated people came upon a windfall via lottery winnings, inheritance or a lawsuit. But despite receiving a lot of media attention throughout the session, the bill did not get called for a vote in the House or Senate.
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Senators gave final approval Wednesday night to a bill intended to address juvenile crimes by making modest changes to the judicial system in an attempt to hold them accountable for breaking the law.
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The bill is meant to address systemic issues raised by the abuse of patient William Shehadi, Jr.
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For the second year in a row, Connecticut lawmakers passed a bill to limit the Department of Correction’s use of solitary confinement on those in the state’s prisons and jails.
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Passage gives Republicans and Democrats a talking point on addressing car thefts as November elections loom.
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Members of the Judiciary Committee approved two multimillion-dollar settlements Monday — one dealing with the prevalence of hepatitis C among those in the state’s prisons and jails and one involving the abuse of a patient at Whiting Forensic Hospital.
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On Monday, now-retired Hartford officer, Jill Kidik, testified against a bill that would make changes to the Psychiatric Security Review Board, which supervises people like the prisoner believed to have stabbed her in the neck — those charged with crimes but ultimately acquitted because of serious mental health conditions.
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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.
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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.
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