Support equal opportunity for re-entry services
Connecticut has long held a commitment to the ideals of justice and fairness, as its citizens have demonstrated in numerous ways throughout the past year. These include actions by our elected leaders, such as the governor’s provision in recent proposed legislation to erase criminal records for low-level cannabis possession. Even more potent was the slew of demonstrations for racial justice, which were planned in such diverse places as Bridgeport, Danbury, New Haven, Durham, Old Lyme, and beyond.
Efforts to reform our state’s criminal justice system clearly matter to us, yet these conversations often neglect a crucial piece of incarceration in Connecticut: the hundreds of prisoners currently held in federal facilities, who often do not have access to the support networks managed by our Department of Corrections. An individual returning from a state prison has access to pre-release addiction services, halfway house beds managed by t