“A $1.3 million verdict exposed prison brutality. Now DOC wants to hide the evidence.” Last October, a federal jury in Connecticut sent a resounding message, awarding $1.3 million to an incarcerated ...

The Connecticut State Police and Office of the Inspector General are investigating the death of a Hartford man, who died in ...

The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A second inmate at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown has died in less than a week, bringing the number of incarcerated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut prisons are “operating in state of sustained institutional failure,” according to a new report from the Office of the Correction Ombuds. It’s a 60 page report that ...

While we have no evidence that contraband was passed during this incident, the growing use of drone technology presents an ...

A corrections officer in Connecticut has been charged with assault on an elderly person for allegedly using excessive force during an incident with an inmate at the Corrigan Correctional Center in ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Correction (CT DOC) is investigating three recent deaths of inmates at state prisons. ‘I am scared’: Friends, family voice concern for inmates ...