Wethersfield’s police department was flagged Thursday as having significant racial disparities in traffic stops for a sixth time. The Connecticut Racial
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.
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Keep youths out of the justice system, or hold them accountable? Judiciary committee advances bills that do both
Connecticut’s motor vehicle theft rate dropped by a larger percentage than the national average between 2010 and 2019. Source: DESPP
The Judiciary Committee advanced two bills on Thursday that offer strikingly different approaches to addressing the needs of young people who commit crimes: one aimed at keeping youths out of the justice system by improving educational programs and diversionary programs, the other intended to hold young people accountable for stealing cars and punish adults who get youths to commit a crime.
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SOUTH WINDSOR â The project manager for the stateâs Racial Profiling Prohibition Project will lead an online discussion tonight on implicit bias.
âWe are hoping as a group that we will come away with an understanding that everyone absorbs a biased perspective in one way or another just by their family culture or their own life experience, and that bias has more to do with a cultured perspective than a negative slant,â said Mary Etter, the director of South Windsor Library, one of the sponsors of the program.
The library in collaboration with the Human Relations Commission and the Town Council’s Black Lives Subcommittee on Social Justice and Equality has planned the event at 7:30, which will be streamed live on Cox channel 6, Frontier channel 6082, and on gmedia.swagit.com/live, as one of a series of programs on social justice and racial equity.