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The Institution was opened in 1995 and at one time held 510 inmates. At the time of Northern Correctional's closure, its population did not surpass 100 inmates. ....
A billboard on I-91 in West Haven over the summer calling on Gov. Ned Lamont to make phone calls free at correctional facilities across the state. The state Senate voted on Thursday to make it free for incarcerated people to call their loved ones from prison or jail. Sen. Martin Looney, President Pro Tem of the Senate and a New Haven Democrat, called the bill a “good investment of therapeutic policy” that would help reduce the feelings of alienation, detachment and isolation that so many people feel once they are released from incarceration. “I support this bill as a good investment in our campaign against prisoner recidivism,” Looney said. ....
Ending solitary confinement will protect lives and also save money SB 1059 s Fiscal Note is drastically inflated This year the PROTECT Act, otherwise known as Senate Bill 1059, offers Connecticut an opportunity to address conditions in Connecticut state prisons and jails that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture condemns as “a State-sanctioned policy aimed at purposefully inflicting severe pain… which may well amount to torture.” If passed, the PROTECT Act would end solitary confinement by guaranteeing minimum time out of cell, banning abusive restraints, ensuring access to pro-social communication, increasing correctional accountability, and supporting the mental health of correctional officers. ....