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GOVERNOR'S SON SMOKES POT "He hopes the matter will be kept as private as possible	VICTORY FOR PRISONER RIGHTS Bowing to ACLU Lawsuit, CT Officials Will Move Prisoners Out of Notorious Virginia "Supermax	Corrections Union Reaches Contract Deal "More than 5,000 state Department of Correction workers have ratified a new four-year labor contract
STATE'S HUGE JOB LOSS RAISES EYEBROWS "Sharp Jump In Unemployment Startles Economists, But Numbers Are Subject To Revision"	COMPROMISE ON SHIPPING INMATES OUT OF STATE "Compromise reached allowing officials to ship Connecticut inmates out-of-state	COMMISSION ON SAFETY AND ABUSE in America’s Prisons "What do we know, how do we know it"
LAWMAKERS DEBATE PRISONS AND OTHER ISSUES "Plans to send another 2,000 Connecticut inmates out of state became contentious issue during budget process	IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE: THE WALLENS RIDGE MISTAKE "Shipping Connecticut inmates out-of-state inappropriate solution for overcrowding	* *
LEGISLATORS NUDGING BUDGET ALONG "Legislators squabble over everything from luring tourists in to shipping convicts out	VIRGINIA PRISON DOCTOR FIRED "...fired shortly after the death of Connecticut inmate Lawrence Frazier	`Correction Officer Faces New Chargesa former state police dispatcher, called in thebom bthreat to DCF's`
LAWMAKERS LOOK TO CHANGE PRISON POLICY "People with minor probation and parole violations clogging the prisons"	MEDICAL DEVICE COULD HAVE SAVED INMATE "Larry Frazier killed with a stun gun in Wallens Ridge."	`Dying for Dollars` `It's about the willingness of high-ranking government officials and respected businessmen to profit fromtragedy.`
NUMBER ONE IN INCARCERATION RATE "Rising crime rates in 1980s sent thousands more felons to Connecticut prisons	UNIONS OPPOSE ROWLAND'S PRISONER TRANSFER PLANS "Corrections Officers say shipping inmates out of state will drive down wages for prison guards."	* *
JUSTICES TO DECIDE HOW STATE SHOULD TREAT ILL INMATES "State officials/human rights advocates clash on how Connecticut should treat mentally ill inmates"	CONNECTICUT INMATES MAY BE MOVED HERE "Va. may take on prisoners "	* *
THREE STRIKES ABSURDITY "In the 1990s, Connecticut and other states passed "three strikes" laws"	VIRGINIA CANCELS CONTRACT "Virginia canceled its 4-year-old contract to house 500 Connecticut inmates	Rell Suggests Closing Juvenile DetentionCenter I'm not sure our children are best served by a facility like CJTS."
HOUSE REJECTS PLAN TO FULLY LEGALZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA "Utilizing prison resources to incarcerate seriously ill self-defeating"	430 Inmates To Return To State Virginia Contract Won't Be Renewed	* *
LAWMAKERS APPROVE BILL: FELONS TO PROVIDE DNA SAMPLES "All convicted felons to give DNA samples when released"	`Last Conn. Prisoners Return from Virginia``Rell said in August that Connecticut wouldn't seek any contracts with other prison systems to house Connecticut inmates outside this state.`	Supermax On Trial The history of Connecticut's only super-maximum-security prison.
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* *	`Woman Challenges Use Of Confession She Made As Teenager` `"This case Should have been about fairness and the treatment of juvenile offenders,"`	* *
* *	INMATE CONVICTED IN DRUG SCHEME "...convicted Friday of trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the Enfield Correctional Institution in July."	What is being done to help Connecticut's Mentally Ill Inmates Advocates are also concerned that the state's plans may lead to a new form of "warehousing"
* *	STATES CUT INMATES LOOSE TO CUT COSTS "Criminal justice shifts as economy stammers"	Lawsuits Attack Isolated Prison Conditions for Mentally Ill Mentally Ill are not receiving proper medical treatment.
`Police Weighing Plans to Prevent Jail SuicidesAssistant Police Chief said the idea was never formally proposed to the chief's office.`	GANG VIOLENCE HEATS UP "Notorious Bloods street gang increases activities	ORGAN HARVESTING Could It Ever Happen In America?
* *	PRISON GUARDS SAY SKAKEL GETS SPECIAL TREATMENT "State prison guards say Skakel's life of privilege didn't end with murder conviction	The Ex-Con More than 12,000 inmates were released from Connecticut prisons last year. How they got into trouble matters a lot less than how they can stay out of it.
* *	SKAKEL'S DEFENSE TEAM APPEALS CONVICTION IN 1975 MURDER "Lawyers filed appeal Monday in State Supreme Court."	* *
* *	PRISON BRUTALITY CLAIMS NOT SUBJECT TO REQUIREMENT "PRISONERS NEED not exhaust administrative remedies before bringing damage actions in federal court for brutality claims against prison guards"	* *
* *	`Increase in prison suicides blamed on understaffed, poor health care``"You have a generalized staff shortage that's quite serious and, on top of that, you have a crisis on how the mental health issues are handled,"`	Connecticut Serial Killers Victim Speaks Out against Death Penalty "Here is a women who got absolutely nothing, no support, no services, while Connecticut spent millions to turn Michael Ross into a celebrity in an attempt to kill him,"
`Correction Department Faces Inquiry on Overtime Cost` `Department of Correction records show that 51 officers were paid nearly $1.3 million in overtime in the 2002-2003 budget year to shuttle inmates between prison to court,`	Jailed Suicides Linked To Staffing DOC found that guards falsified log books and, according to prisoners, were grossly indifferent to human life.	Maximum security living conditions get civil liberties interest Civil rights groups are challenging conditions in many of the nation's most restrictive maximum-security prisons because they believe long-term isolation breeds mental illness among inmates.
`$17 Million Upgrade Underway At Prison "This Facility Doesn't Even Houses Inmates"`	`Guards disciplined over lapses in 9 inmate deaths` `Superior Court judge orders suicide watch, Department staff saw no sign that he was suicidal, and was not under suicide watch when he hanged himself`	* *
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GOVERNOR'S SON SMOKES POT "He hopes the matter will be kept as private as possible	VICTORY FOR PRISONER RIGHTS Bowing to ACLU Lawsuit, CT Officials Will Move Prisoners Out of Notorious Virginia "Supermax	Corrections Union Reaches Contract Deal "More than 5,000 state Department of Correction workers have ratified a new four-year labor contract
STATE'S HUGE JOB LOSS RAISES EYEBROWS "Sharp Jump In Unemployment Startles Economists, But Numbers Are Subject To Revision"	COMPROMISE ON SHIPPING INMATES OUT OF STATE "Compromise reached allowing officials to ship Connecticut inmates out-of-state	COMMISSION ON SAFETY AND ABUSE in America’s Prisons "What do we know, how do we know it"
LAWMAKERS DEBATE PRISONS AND OTHER ISSUES "Plans to send another 2,000 Connecticut inmates out of state became contentious issue during budget process	IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE: THE WALLENS RIDGE MISTAKE "Shipping Connecticut inmates out-of-state inappropriate solution for overcrowding	* *
LEGISLATORS NUDGING BUDGET ALONG "Legislators squabble over everything from luring tourists in to shipping convicts out	VIRGINIA PRISON DOCTOR FIRED "...fired shortly after the death of Connecticut inmate Lawrence Frazier	`Correction Officer Faces New Chargesa former state police dispatcher, called in thebom bthreat to DCF's`
LAWMAKERS LOOK TO CHANGE PRISON POLICY "People with minor probation and parole violations clogging the prisons"	MEDICAL DEVICE COULD HAVE SAVED INMATE "Larry Frazier killed with a stun gun in Wallens Ridge."	`Dying for Dollars` `It's about the willingness of high-ranking government officials and respected businessmen to profit fromtragedy.`
NUMBER ONE IN INCARCERATION RATE "Rising crime rates in 1980s sent thousands more felons to Connecticut prisons	UNIONS OPPOSE ROWLAND'S PRISONER TRANSFER PLANS "Corrections Officers say shipping inmates out of state will drive down wages for prison guards."	* *
JUSTICES TO DECIDE HOW STATE SHOULD TREAT ILL INMATES "State officials/human rights advocates clash on how Connecticut should treat mentally ill inmates"	CONNECTICUT INMATES MAY BE MOVED HERE "Va. may take on prisoners "	* *
THREE STRIKES ABSURDITY "In the 1990s, Connecticut and other states passed "three strikes" laws"	VIRGINIA CANCELS CONTRACT "Virginia canceled its 4-year-old contract to house 500 Connecticut inmates	Rell Suggests Closing Juvenile DetentionCenter I'm not sure our children are best served by a facility like CJTS."
HOUSE REJECTS PLAN TO FULLY LEGALZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA "Utilizing prison resources to incarcerate seriously ill self-defeating"	430 Inmates To Return To State Virginia Contract Won't Be Renewed	* *
LAWMAKERS APPROVE BILL: FELONS TO PROVIDE DNA SAMPLES "All convicted felons to give DNA samples when released"	`Last Conn. Prisoners Return from Virginia``Rell said in August that Connecticut wouldn't seek any contracts with other prison systems to house Connecticut inmates outside this state.`	Supermax On Trial The history of Connecticut's only super-maximum-security prison.
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* *	`Woman Challenges Use Of Confession She Made As Teenager` `"This case Should have been about fairness and the treatment of juvenile offenders,"`	* *
* *	INMATE CONVICTED IN DRUG SCHEME "...convicted Friday of trying to smuggle illegal drugs into the Enfield Correctional Institution in July."	What is being done to help Connecticut's Mentally Ill Inmates Advocates are also concerned that the state's plans may lead to a new form of "warehousing"
* *	STATES CUT INMATES LOOSE TO CUT COSTS "Criminal justice shifts as economy stammers"	Lawsuits Attack Isolated Prison Conditions for Mentally Ill Mentally Ill are not receiving proper medical treatment.
`Police Weighing Plans to Prevent Jail SuicidesAssistant Police Chief said the idea was never formally proposed to the chief's office.`	GANG VIOLENCE HEATS UP "Notorious Bloods street gang increases activities	ORGAN HARVESTING Could It Ever Happen In America?
* *	PRISON GUARDS SAY SKAKEL GETS SPECIAL TREATMENT "State prison guards say Skakel's life of privilege didn't end with murder conviction	The Ex-Con More than 12,000 inmates were released from Connecticut prisons last year. How they got into trouble matters a lot less than how they can stay out of it.
* *	SKAKEL'S DEFENSE TEAM APPEALS CONVICTION IN 1975 MURDER "Lawyers filed appeal Monday in State Supreme Court."	* *
* *	PRISON BRUTALITY CLAIMS NOT SUBJECT TO REQUIREMENT "PRISONERS NEED not exhaust administrative remedies before bringing damage actions in federal court for brutality claims against prison guards"	* *
* *	`Increase in prison suicides blamed on understaffed, poor health care``"You have a generalized staff shortage that's quite serious and, on top of that, you have a crisis on how the mental health issues are handled,"`	Connecticut Serial Killers Victim Speaks Out against Death Penalty "Here is a women who got absolutely nothing, no support, no services, while Connecticut spent millions to turn Michael Ross into a celebrity in an attempt to kill him,"
`Correction Department Faces Inquiry on Overtime Cost` `Department of Correction records show that 51 officers were paid nearly $1.3 million in overtime in the 2002-2003 budget year to shuttle inmates between prison to court,`	Jailed Suicides Linked To Staffing DOC found that guards falsified log books and, according to prisoners, were grossly indifferent to human life.	Maximum security living conditions get civil liberties interest Civil rights groups are challenging conditions in many of the nation's most restrictive maximum-security prisons because they believe long-term isolation breeds mental illness among inmates.
`$17 Million Upgrade Underway At Prison "This Facility Doesn't Even Houses Inmates"`	`Guards disciplined over lapses in 9 inmate deaths` `Superior Court judge orders suicide watch, Department staff saw no sign that he was suicidal, and was not under suicide watch when he hanged himself`	* *
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