The Connecticut State Police and Office of the Inspector General are investigating the death of a Hartford man, who died in ...

“A $1.3 million verdict exposed prison brutality. Now DOC wants to hide the evidence.” Last October, a federal jury in Connecticut sent a resounding message, awarding $1.3 million to an incarcerated ...

The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A second inmate at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown has died in less than a week, bringing the number of incarcerated ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut prisons are “operating in state of sustained institutional failure,” according to a new report from the Office of the Correction Ombuds. It’s a 60 page report that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of ...

While we have no evidence that contraband was passed during this incident, the growing use of drone technology presents an ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Correction (CT DOC) is investigating three recent deaths of inmates at state prisons. ‘I am scared’: Friends, family voice concern for inmates ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A former Connecticut corrections officer has been sentenced to years in prison for threatening the family of an FBI agent in South Carolina and sharing online where they lived. The ...