Tag Archives: prison columnist

By Chris Powell With their residents locked in and the public locked out, Connecticut’s prisons are inevitably far more secretive than other agencies of government. Combine this secrecy with the disdain for prisoners and the decline of journalism and prisons become especially susceptible to malfeasance, misconduct, and abuse of power.  Criminal justice in Connecticut isContinue reading “Prisons aren’t the only agency that could use an ‘ombudsman’”