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Third Connecticut Prison Lockdown in Five Months
by Kevin W. Bliss
When an apparently intoxicated prisoner allegedly assaulted a guard at Connecticut’s largest prison on June 13, 2023, the lockup was put on lockdown. It was at least the third time this year that a state Department of Correction (DOC) prison was shutdown.
The first incident also ...
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- Florida Returning Canteen Funds for Prisoner Programming, by Harold Hempstead
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- New York City Stops Reporting Rikers Island Deaths Amid Rampant Guard Misconduct, by Benjamin Tschirhart, Chuck Sharman, Kevin Bliss
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- Texas Prisons are Fire Traps, by Edward Lyon
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