Inmates and others in state-based congregate settings are slated to be vaccinated for COVID-19 on schedule with other phase 1b groups which include those over 75, essential workers and those with high risk conditions ..read more

I expected to feel overjoyed, or at least relieved. I thought I’d cry at the inauguration, I thought I’d feel like the world was lighter. But all I feel is empty, and I can’t really figure out why. The booting of Donald Trump from office was one of the few things this country has gotten right lately, and by God, it was so necessary. He was toxic, a metastasizing cancer in the body politic, and I just don’t understand anyone who pretended it was any other way. America is better with him out of power and off social media. But I can’t really start to process the past four years, not yet. Now th ..read more

Even as state Rep. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, has reintroduced a bill to cut the cost of phone calls from incarcerated individuals to their families, the state Department of Correction announced Friday that all inmates will be receiving tablets with the state getting a cut of charges for emails and entertainment programming ..read more

It’s been years in the making, but today we are excited to announce that we have moved to a new website and content management system. Most of you will likely be seeing it today or tomorrow as the changes propagate throughout the world’s web servers ..read more

COVID-19 shut down everything in March, including local government, and it altered Connecticut’s open meeting law, forcing governments to figure out how to hold a public hearing via Zoom ..read more

Opponents of so-called “prison gerrymandering” plan to make one last push to change where Connecticut counts prison inmates before the legislature starts its reapportionment process this year and locks in its voting districts for another decade ..read more

A recent article in CTNewsJunkie highlighted the struggles of Allied Community Resources to support the people who care for those in need of help.  Home care workers and personal care attendants experienced frequent and ongoing delays in receiving payment for their work.  The situation has grown so serious that the union representing workers paid through Allied has asked that the Department of Social Services not renew the company’s contract with the state ..read more

HARTFORD, CT—Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration has suspended its search for a permanent public health commissioner at least through the duration of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, officials said Thursday ..read more

HARTFORD, CT — Enrollment with private health insurance providers through Connecticut’s health insurance exchange this year was down about 2.7%, according to officials at Access Health CT ..read more

HARTFORD, CT—Gov. Ned Lamont signalled Thursday he would ask the legislature to extend the emergency declarations that have backed his COVID-19-related executive orders since last March ..read more