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| CT prison population drops below 15,000 |
| By yaledailynews.com- Noah Daponte-Smith |
| Published: 09/13/2016 |
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Gov. Dannel Malloy’s efforts to place criminal justice reform at the forefront of his domestic agenda have begun to pay off, as he announced last week that Connecticut’s prison population briefly dropped below 15,000 — where it now hovers — for the first time in nearly two decades. Connecticut’s current total prison population is down by nearly 25 percent from its all-time high of just under 20,000 in 2008, and down 7 percent from 16,168 in September 2015. Standing alongside corrections officials from around the state on Sept. 9, including Correction Commissioner Scott Semple, Malloy credited the “Second Chance Society,” the criminal-justice reform efforts he has fought for over the last two years, with playing a major role in reducing Connecticut’s prison population. Read More. |
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