This story has been updated. A report by Disability Rights Connecticut released on Tuesday accused the Department of ...

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant prisoners is not unusual, even when the target is mentally ill.

For attorney DeVaughn Ward, the experience of incarcerated individuals during their time in the Department of Correction should be three things: humane, dignified and focused on rehabilitation.

The Connecticut Department of Corrections and the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General told News 8 it cannot comment on matters involving pending litigation.

I mean, hundreds of thousands of strip searches … it sounds like people are having strip searches tens of times a year,” a state senator said. “It’s hard to believe that that’s actually ...

they have a significant mental health unit that is one of the reforms that the Connecticut Department of Correction had launched some years ago. WSHU: Why are they trying to make this change?

This story has been updated. A report by Disability Rights Connecticut released on Tuesday accused the Department of Correction of failing to provide the correct medical care to an incarcerated ...