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Social Equity Council begins distributing money from cannabis industry in pilot program

The Social Equity Council has granted $1 million to eastern CT, and $1 million to five other CT communities for nonprofits.

$1 million in legal cannabis revenue directed to community groups

Norwich ― Almost a million dollars of the revenue generated by the state’s burgeoning cannabis program is being used in eastern Connecticut to address decades of fallout from the War on Drugs that sta.

CT must flip the script on economics of mass incarceration

CT's Clean Slate Act begins Jan. 1 only for low-level pot possession convictions. That means about 250,000 people have to wait for clean records. – Hartford Courant

Lamont said the delay is caused by Clean Slate automated erasure system needing “significant information technology upgrades to allow criminal justice agencies to send and receive data to determine who can have their offenses erased and to update record systems.”

UConn Health joins NAACP in campaign to employ formerly incarcerated in Hartford area

UConn Health and the state chapter of the NAACP have teamed up to try to hire 5% of UConn Health's entry-level employees from those who have been incarcerated or have an arrest record.