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The International Festival of Arts and Ideas will feature a discussion about barriers women face when returning home from prison — with women who have been through the experience.

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.

The stories you get from jury duty can be funny, absurd, or, like you’ll hear from a juror from the Derek Chauvin trial, traumatic. That's on the next episode of Audacious.

Social media plays an important role in activism. On this hour of Disrupted, Activist Alicia Garza talks about what activism looks like in America today. Plus, the future of solitary confinement in Connecticut.

Kids as young as 15 in Connecticut go to a high-security prison if they're accused of committing a serious felony. That prison, the Manson Youth Institution, has been investigated by state and federal officials. The findings may prompt the state to send local youth awaiting trial elsewhere by 2026.

Two men died on Jan. 15 and 17, raising the total of COVID-19-related deaths for incarcerated people in Connecticut to 27 since the onset of the pandemic.

COVID-19 has surged in Connecticut this winter, and more than 1,100 Department of Correction workers are recovering from infection this week.

The Connecticut Department of Correction suspended in-person visits in late November, but a recent roundup of nationwide research compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative suggests that this policy not only fails to protect incarcerated people and staff from COVID-19, but it actually makes inmates less safe while in prison and hampers their ability to later reenter society.

The Department of Correction has revised its policies on in-cell restraints, an attempt to reduce the length of time incarcerated people are shackled alone in their cells for behavior deemed dangerous by prison officials.

State officials have agreed to pay $1.65 million to the family of Karon Nealy Jr., a 19-year-old who died in 2015 of complications from lupus while he was…