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When the accused is just 18: How brain science complicates adult criminal justice

The age of the accused gunman in May’s Buffalo supermarket mass shooting has renewed conversations and debate about suitable punishment for a defendant of that age. Recent criminal justice reforms and gun control legislation take into consideration human brain development, indicating that young people may be legal adults, but not fully mature.

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Amid concerns about family separation, let s remember Connecticut s children with incarcerated parents

Amid concerns about family separation, let’s remember Connecticut’s children with incarcerated parents While many Americans watched in horror as family separation policies tore families apart at the border, many of us didn’t know how frequently our laws tear apart families of color here in Connecticut. When judges sentence parents to incarceration, they can unknowingly sentence children to family separation through termination of parental rights (“TPR”). After TPR, a parent has no right to care for, visit, or communicate with their child. TPR is the death penalty of family law: If the length of a parent’s sentence triggers TPR, children suffer permanent, legal separation from their families.

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Clinic Releases Report on Preserving Parental Rights for Incarcerated Parents

Clinic Releases Report on Preserving Parental Rights for Incarcerated Parents In the Press Clinic Releases Report on Preserving Parental Rights for Incarcerated Parents Connecticut Voices for Children (CT Voices) and the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School (CJAC) released a report on March 12, 2021 that examines the collateral consequences of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on children with incarcerated parents. The report, “Incarcerated Parents and Termination of Parental Rights in Connecticut: Recommendations for Reform,” examines the unintended impacts of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), a federal law passed in 1997 that shifted the goal of child-protection policy from family preservation to adoption, and outlines recommendations to protect parental rights and promote the welfare of children with incarcerated parents.

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As COVID-19 rages, federal inmates stuck in Connecticut prison are like sitting ducks, lawyer says

At a federal compound in Connecticut, inmates in precarious health “are like sitting ducks,” one lawyer said.

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As COVID-19 rages, federal inmates stuck in Connecticut prison are like sitting ducks, lawyer says

As COVID-19 rages, federal inmates stuck in Connecticut prison are like sitting ducks, lawyer says
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