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Thomas J. Hunt
NAUGATUCK â When Naugatuck Police Chief Steven Hunt started his career as a police officer almost 30 years ago, other local officers would always tell him his father, former Naugatuck Deputy Police Chief Thomas J. Hunt, was a âcopâs cop.â
âThatâs probably the highest compliment you can give a police officer,â said Hunt, noting it means an officer does the job right and with integrity.
Thomas J. Hunt died May 3. He was 77 years old.
Thomas J. Hunt started his law enforcement career in 1965 â three years after graduating from Naugatuck High School â as a supernumerary police officer with the Naugatuck Police Department. He spent the next 45 years dedicating himself to the department, retiring in 2010 as deputy police chief.
Editor’s Note: One year ago today 0n April 13, 2020 Carlos DeLeon, a 63-year-old Hispanic man, became the first incarcerated person in Connecticut to die of COVID-19. In the intervening months, roughly 18 more would die after contracting the disease behind bars as state officials scrambled to test, isolate and more recently vaccinate inmates and staff. At the same time, though, the pandemic has led to a record low prison population, allowing the state to begin planning for the closure of three prisons. Below, a look ahead at what’s next for Connecticut’s prisons.
For the past 15 years, criminal justice experts have produced a report forecasting the size of Connecticut’s incarcerated population. Most of the time, their projections were within five percentage points of reality.