Lamont vetoes prison bill that would have limited solitary confinement
Ken Dixon
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Correction officers react to the announcement Wednesday of Gov. Ned Lamont’s veto of a bill aimed at reforming solitary confinement in state prisons.Ken Dixon / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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One of the guard houses at the Northern Correctional Institution in Enfield.Hearst Connecticut Media file photoShow MoreShow Less
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Community activist Barbara Fair, in a 2020 file photo.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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HARTFORD Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday vetoed controversial legislation that would have limited the amount of time incarcerated people could be kept in solitary confinement and the use of restraints.
Cloe Poisson / CTMirror.org
When her son Michael told her in June that he was being transferred to the Osborn Correctional Institution from a prison in Newtown, Dorothea Ferrigon thought his two-year ordeal was almost over.
Osborn’s location in Somers was much closer to the family’s Bloomfield home, which meant it would be easier to visit him. Even better, he’d been placed on a waiting list for a halfway house that would likely be in the Hartford area. His release, it appeared, was imminent.
But then COVID struck the prisons, the state Department of Correction halted visitations, and the family worried about “Big Mike,” who had both diabetes and asthma.