A third Department of Correction employee has tested positive for the coronavirus, agency officials confirmed Friday. The employee, who works as custody staff at Hartford Correctional Center, last entered the building. DOC officials said the employee was assigned a hospital detail at Manchester Memorial Hospital on Monday, March 23 and worked second and third shifts. During the third shift on…

A Department of Correction employee who works at the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown has tested positive for the coronavirus, officials confirmed Monday. DOC said the employee has been self-monitoring at home since Wednesday, March 18 and last entered Garner on Tuesday, March 17. Effective Monday, anyone entering a DOC facility will be screened, including a temperature check. Anyone with…

A resident of a Department of Correction contracted halfway house in New Haven who was admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital Wednesday with flu-like symptoms has tested negative for coronavirus. DOC officials said the staff and other residents who were told to stay at the building while awaiting test results, can return to normal. There are 59 offenders housed at…

Among other steps, the Connecticut Department of Correction has issued visitor restrictions at all of its facilities in response to the growing coronavirus crisis.  DOC officials said Thursday that while they have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in any state prison, they are taking steps to safeguard against the virus. The agency is suspending all social visits starting Friday,...

A woman who worked in the state Department Of Correction is now in trouble with the law herself.  Details of significant embezzlement emerged in paperwork released by state auditors. Sandra Sacco worked at York Correctional Institution For Women up until last November. The Department of Correction dismissed her from state service after it says an investigation proved she falsified...

Two Department of Correction nurses are on leave after an inmate treated for a head wound was taken to a local emergency room and later died. A DOC spokesperson said on Thursday at 12:59 a.m. Osborn Correctional Institute staff responded when the inmate, 36-year-old Jose Peralta, was found lying on his back on the floor of a dormitory area. Peralta…

A Connecticut Department of Correction officer was given a dose of Narcan after finding a bag that had held fentanyl among an inmate’s belongings at a correctional center, according to officials from the department. Officials said it happened while processing a new inmate around 1 p.m. on Dec. 17 at the Hartford Correctional Center. While the correction officers were taking…

Data from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness shows nearly 50% of people in homeless shelters in Connecticut over the past three years were also incarcerated at some point.

Cyntoia Brown, championed by celebrities as a symbol of unfair sentencing, was released early Wednesday from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man who had picked her up for sex at 16. Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg and LeBron James had lobbied for Brown’s release, calling her a sex...

Six female correction officers have been indicted amid allegations that women endured invasive body cavity and strip searches when they tried to visit loved ones in jail, horror stories that were unearthed in a series of I-Team reports.

The State of Connecticut will not be moving forward with plans to build a Connecticut State Police gun range in Griswold, according to the governor’s office.

The former chairman of Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., Carlos Ghosn, denied any wrongdoing and proclaimed his loyalty to the company at a court hearing in Tokyo on Tuesday. It was Ghosn’s first public appearance since he was arrested on Nov. 19 and charged with false financial reporting. “Your honor, I am innocent of the accusations against me,” Ghosn told the...

Windsor Locks police have arrested a man accused of breaking into a local church in September.

A prisoner who scaled a fence to escape from the Cheshire Correctional Institution Wednesday evening, then stole a pizza deliver’s vehicle has been found and arrested, according to police.

More than 900 complaints have been filed with the State of Connecticut about the driving habits of government employees operating state-issued vehicles. NBC Connecticut Investigates recently obtained the complaints filed between 2016 and 2018.

Ned Lamont has his own way to try to put more money in Connecticut residents’ pockets.

Connecticut State Police arrested a Hartford woman in connection with the sale of fentanyl in the greater Hartford area.

Corrections officers were viciously attacked within the past day in New York City jails — one on Rikers, the other in Brooklyn. Sarah Wallace reports.

Connecticut State Police are looking into putting a new shooting range in Griswold, but many area residents say they don’t want to hear gunfire in the communal backyard they share with the Pachaug Forest.

A man accused of shooting a customer at a convenience store in New London in March has been charged with a attempted murder.