Kelan Lyons

Republicans have been hounding Democrats for a year to pass legislation addressing car thefts and shootings. This session, Democrats listened.

CT can no longer take money won in lawsuits to pay for the cost of a person’s imprisonment — unless they’ve been convicted of certain crimes.

Some Connecticut prison inmates are eligible for stimulus money. The trick is making sure they know how to apply.

Connecticut will receive a combined $17 million from two federal agencies to track opioid overdoses and expand access to treatment.

Fewer people are jailed in Connecticut today than in 2008. But the cash bail system keeps those who can’t buy their way out imprisoned.

A conservative religious group filed the federal suit, which seeks to knock down Connecticut’s policy of allowing trans high school athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender identity.

Connecticut’s efforts to end cash bail were stymied by the bail bonds industry, a lack of bipartisanship and worry over what would replace it.

The state House of Representatives voted Friday morning to pass an ambitious police reform bill.

It took fish fries, fundraisers and GoFundMe to bail Bryan Jordan out of a Connecticut jail. Was it enough to keep him home?

People applying for commutations in CT must now show ‘exceptional and compelling circumstances’ that merit reducing their time behind bars.