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Note: Part One of this column can be read here: “No Vindication for the Inmate Legal Assistance Program in its Response“ As defense of its near million-dollar-a-year fee from the […]

Connecticut’s first Conditions of Confinement Report, issued in January by Correction Ombuds DeVaughn Ward, seems like a damning document because it’s unprecedented. Never before in the state’s history did one […]

Connecticut’s correctional system is in crisis, but that’s not news. The news is who benefits from the crisis; a new report — the 2025 Conditions of Confinement Report from the […]

Editor’s note: Whatever you do or don’t think about the controversial and complex case of the Menendez Brothers, a look at their recent bid for parole opens the door to an examination of how well or poorly our systems of prison discipline presently work. So read on!

Editor’s note: Whatever you do or don’t think about the controversial and complex case of the Menendez Brothers, a look at their recent bid for parole opens the door to an examination of how well or poorly our systems of prison discipline presently work. So read on!

Attorney Devaughn Ward, in his first year as ombuds for Department of Correction, has tried to find out what services and benefits exactly the Inmate Legal Assistance Program — at […]

Editor’s note: Whatever you do or don’t think about the controversial and complex case of the Menendez Brothers, a look at their recent bid for parole opens the door to an examination of how well or poorly our systems of prison discipline presently work.

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DeVaughn Ward is one of a few attorneys in the state who handles claims against the state for “conditions of confinement,” cases that argue the state violates an inmate’s constitutional […]

Bennie Gray, Jr. was home on parole for less than two months when on May 9, 2018 the New London Police Department arrested him and charged him with possession and […]

The work done by prisoners to prevent and contain fires is just as valuable as that of other responders. But unlike their professional counterparts, they don't receive protections or benefits.

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Chandra Bozelko did time in a maximum-security facility in Connecticut. She’s not scared of much, certainly not of conflict. That’s where she leans in. She has criticized Harvey Weinstein’s perp walk. She defends prison labor. While she’s not a…

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned this week, for good reasons. Foremost was her inability to muster a straightforward answer when asked in Congress whether Harvard should condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people. There are other good…

Ronald Sullivan was the first African American to serve as a faculty dean of a residential dorm at Harvard College. He had served in that role at Winthrop House for a decade when the Dean of the College, Rakesh Khurana, asked him to step down because…