Criminal Justice Reforms

• provide job training for ex-offenders
• encourage permanent employment of ex-offenders
• reduce the exorbitant costs of collect calls that are levied against families of offenders

HB-5178 AN ACT CONCERNING THE TOWN OF RESIDENCE OF AN INMATE OF A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

• To ensure an equitable distribution of state and federal funds and benefits by requiring the Office of Policy and Management to include an inmate of a correctional facility in the population count of the town where the inmate was residing before incarceration rather than the town where the correctional facility is located.

• To provide funds for workforce development programs in shortage areas.

• That the general statutes be amended to provide that any contract entered into by the state for the provision of telephone service to inmates of correctional facilities shall include a requirement that the cost of making a telephone call by an inmate of a correctional facility shall not exceed the cost of making a comparable telephone call by a person outside of such correctional facility.

• To increase funding to the Department of Correction to expand the special overtime staffing program to four additional correctional facilities.

• To encourage permanent employment for nonviolent offenders after employers review background checks.

Resources on Criminal Justice Reform

Fact Sheets 3 Strikes Fact Sheet pdf Catholic Bishops on the Death Penalty pdf Websites American Civil Liberties Union CT A Better Way Foundation The Alliance CT Efficacy

Events Clean Slate Committee, New Britain 20 March 2008 Death Penalty Abolition Lecture 11 February 2008 Criminal Justice Reform Rally 6 February 2008 MLK Criminal Justice Reform Rally 21 January 2008

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