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| Beefing up teleconferencing to save money |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 11/24/2008 |
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CONNECTICUT - It costs the state of Connecticut at least $1,600 every time multiple murder suspect Joshua Komisarjevsky appears in a courtroom. Despite his slight build and boyish appearance, Komisarjevsky is classified as a high security inmate, facing charges of murder, rape and arson from a 2007 home invasion in which a woman and her two daughters were killed in Cheshire. At every court appearance, a special detail of corrections officers and two state troopers are assigned to accompany him. So, when Komisarjevsky was due in family court earlier this year on an unrelated matter, prison officials opted for a teleconference. Instead an expensive trip to the courthouse, officers escorted Komisarjevsky down the hall from his cell at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, to a room where he participated in the hearing via two-way video. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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