Connecticut’s Prison Libraries are Suddenly the Center of Attention
Last week, Steven Hayes was convicted of murdering three women in a Connecticut home invasion. Hayes's case sparked national interest earlier this year when his defense attorneys filed a motion seeking...
View ArticlePrison Union Warns Connecticut Leaders Of Imminent Riots
According to a recent AP article, Connecticut will close the Bergin and Enfield Correctional Institutions this fall. The closures are a response to the failure of state employees to ratify a labor...
View ArticleSome Common Sense Limits on Arresting School Kids
Connecticut is taking the first step towards reducing the number of needless police interventions in its public schools. According to this story, probation supervisors will now conduct reviews of...
View ArticleFighting Overcriminalization in Connecticut Tooth and Nail
Right on Crime has long focused on the increasing scope of criminal law, state and federal. This often includes laws and regulations which criminalize and penalize (sometimes even with incarceration)...
View ArticleConnecticut Prison Population Is Down Dramatically
Connecticut’s criminal justice administration predicted a prison population of 17,213 in the first week of July of 2012. Instead, the population stands at 16,586—3.6 percent below the forecast. And...
View ArticleThe Conservative Case Against More Prisons
Our policy experts Vikrant Reddy and Marc Levin wrote an excellent piece recently for The American Conservative magazine. It’s entitled, “The Conservative Case Against More Prisons” and appeared in the...
View ArticleLevin: “Give Youths Sentenced As Adults A Second Look Later”
In Connecticut you must be 18 to vote, serve on a jury or enter into a contract. The law recognizes that adolescents are less equipped to make important decisions than adults are. Yet in one area,...
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