ACLU of Connecticut Urges State Officials to Use Existing Powers to Release People Awaiting Trial, Certain Other Incarcerated People During COVID-19 Pandemic
March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020
HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 13 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release:
In the wake of confirmed cases in Connecticut of coronavirus/COVID-19, the ACLU of Connecticut called for state officials to take action to protect incarcerated people, corrections employees, and the general public by reducing the use of imprisonment in Connecticut.
"Given the CDC's warnings about avoiding confined spaces and the threat COVID-19 p . . .
In the wake of confirmed cases in Connecticut of coronavirus/COVID-19, the ACLU of Connecticut called for state officials to take action to protect incarcerated people, corrections employees, and the general public by reducing the use of imprisonment in Connecticut.
"Given the CDC's warnings about avoiding confined spaces and the threat COVID-19 p . . .