July 28, 2006

ISCJ Administrator Andrew Clark with (l to r) Latoya McBean, Criminal Justice Policy Analyst with CSG; Brian Austen, Undersecretary for Criminal Justice Policy & Planning at OPM; Rep. Mike Lawlor, Chair of the CGA Judiciary Committee; Rep. Bob Farr, Ranking Member of the CGA Judiciary Committee; and (seated) Gov. M. Jodi Rell, at the Bill Signing Ceremony for HB 5781 An Act Concerning Criminal Justice Policy and Planning and The Establishment of a Sentencing Task Force.

July 27, 2006

Visiting Delegation from Shandong Normal University, China

The Dawn of a New Movement
On any given day, America locks down some 2.3 million people. Some 656,000 emerge every year; about two-thirds of them end up behind bars again.

By Ellis Cose

Newsweek

Reducing prisons population is goal

The New Britain Herald