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When Connecticut violates an incarcerated person’s right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, it should not be able to give itself a discount.
When Connecticut violates an incarcerated person’s right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, it should not be able to give itself a discount.
Smart Justice is just getting started on its efforts to create prosecutorial transparency and accountability, and our work to reform the CJC will continue.
Smart Justice is just getting started on its efforts to create prosecutorial transparency and accountability, and our work to reform the CJC will continue.
Information is power, and this transparency bill is a necessary step – but only the first step – toward placing power over police squarely where it belongs: with the people.
Information is power, and this transparency bill is a necessary step – but only the first step – toward placing power over police squarely where it belongs: with the people.
People living with a record have already earned the right to be part of our communities. But in many cases, a record of arrest or conviction can become a permanent, life-long sentence.
People living with a record have already earned the right to be part of our communities. But in many cases, a record of arrest or conviction can become a permanent, life-long sentence.
The bill is a direct result of the ACLU of Connecticut’s Smart Justice leaders, who are directly impacted by the justice system, calling for change, and it is part of a longer-term Smart Justice effort to...
The bill is a direct result of the ACLU of Connecticut’s Smart Justice leaders, who are directly impacted by the justice system, calling for change, and it is part of a longer-term Smart Justice effort to...
S.B. 880, An Act Increasing Fairness and Transparency in the Criminal Justice System, is now Connecticut law. Passing a law, however, is just a first step toward creating transparency about prosecutors’...
S.B. 880, An Act Increasing Fairness and Transparency in the Criminal Justice System, is now Connecticut law. Passing a law, however, is just a first step toward creating transparency about prosecutors’...
