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How Connecticut became a model for prison reform |
By thecrimereport.org- Christopher Moraff |
Published: 12/06/2016 |
From the outside, Osborn Correctional Institution in northern Connecticut looks like a textbook American prison. Opened in 1963, before the nation began sprouting prisons like mushrooms, the sprawling medium-security facility—which sits on 550 acres of rural land on the outskirts of Hartford—is a fortress of concrete, iron and concertina wire. But behind Osborn’s walls stands a laboratory for one of the most aggressive experiments in criminal justice reform currently underway in the United States. Under the stewardship of Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, Connecticut has seen its prison population fall to a 20-year low while rates of reported violent crime have plummeted. Read More. |
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