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CT: State legislators seek stronger protection for correction officers

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

TheDay.Com State legislators seek stronger protection for correction officers By Ted Mann Published Hartford - With a steadily rising population and a rash of violent attacks in the state's prisons, leading Democrats in the House of Representatives called Thursday for new safety measures to protect the system's correction officers. The lawmakers, including the current and incoming speakers of the House, have launched a task force to evaluate safety and working conditions for the officers, along with their union leaders, who say that the swelling number of inmates has left them vulnerable to assault. The announcement comes just two weeks after a prisoner attacked two officers at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Montville with a handcrafted shank, stabbing one officer in the neck...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).