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Frankie & Johnny: January 13, 2023. Topics this week include the sales launch of marijuana for recreational use; efforts by Connecticut officials to erase cannabis convictions in tandem with the broadening of adult-use pot in Connecticut; and the success of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team in the face of mounting injuries.

On this episode of Audacious, meet a winter caretaker at Yellowstone, a runner-up from the t.v. show, Alone, and a man who spent almost 30 years in solitary confinement.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, incarcerated content producers share TikTok videos, podcasts, and journalism to challenge perceptions of prison life.

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.