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A bill that would allow free phone calls to Connecticut inmates is being bashed by a state senator, but it also has vast support with 35 co-sponsors. (Tim Jensen/Patch)
VERNON, CT State Sen. Daniel Champagne, the assistant state Senate Republican leader who also happens to be member of the legislative Judiciary Committee, an ex-cop and the current mayor of Vernon, lashed out this week at a measure that requires the Connecticut Department of Correction to provide telephone services for prison inmates.
The bill s premise is, to provide cost-free telecommunications for incarcerated persons.
The bill also allows the DOC commissioner to supplement phone services with other means of communication, like video and email, at no cost to the inmate or other party involved on the call, Champagne said.
A second man has been charged in the 2018 shooting death of a 16-year-old Connecticut boy.The Stamford Police Department Major Crimes Unit arrested John Montero-Delossantos, age 21, of Stamford, on Tuesday, May 11, for the death of Ma…
The state legislature must end solitary confinement
I oversaw a long-term solitary confinement unit in Connecticut. Isolated confinement harms us all.
When I think about the solitary confinement unit that I oversaw, the first thing I remember is the sound. Constant banging on cell doors, jangling keys, and most of all, people yelling from their single cells. Whenever I toured the unit, people would shout to me: “Warden! Warden! I need to talk to you!” I always stopped to listen. But moments of compassion can only do so much in an environment where people are locked up 23 hours per day. I saw incarcerated people break down, brought to the point of mental health crisis by the extreme environment. Staff suffered too; even I was traumatized.
Published May 06. 2021 11:07PM
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
A fake report at the Cheshire Correctional Institution that mocks a Muslim prison guard will be internally investigated, the Connecticut Department of Correction said Thursday.
Officer Shem Brijbilas filed a complaint after being shown the fake document by other correction officers on April 21, according to a report filed on the incident.
The document, which includes numerous racial slurs and references to white supremacy, is written to look as if it had been filed by Brijbilas, according to the officer s complaint, which was first reported by The Hartford Courant.
Copies of it were loaded into the paper tray of a printer at the prison, putting it on the back of several other reports printed that day, Farhan Memon, the chairman of Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Thursday.