Article: Connecticut prison population swells to record high

Article: Connecticut prison will increase treatment of ...
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  November 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ...2004 NOV 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Connecticut prison is being used to ramp up efforts to treat mentally ill inmates, raising questions about whether such treatment is best offered ...

Article: Connecticut prison chief will bow out
Corrections Digest;  February 28, 2003 ;     430 words ...Connecticut Correction Commissioner John J. Armstrong asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration for reappointment as head of the state prison system. Gov. John G. Rowland, who was sworn into a third team in January, wanted Armstrong to remain so that his resignation came as a surprise. No

Article: Connecticut Prison System Seeks Recruits.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ...By Dwight F. Blint, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 23--Sean McCann hopes crime will provide him with good benefits and an attractive retirement package. There are thousands like him who are starting to think the same way. While hiring in the state prison system

Article: CONNECTICUT PRISON HEAD CHOSEN
The Boston Globe;  August 2, 1987 ;     310 words ...A nationwide search for the right man to head Connecticut's troubled corrections system ended in Oklahoma. Gov. William O'Neill announced his choice of Larry Meachum, 48, credited with turning around an Oklahoma system so chaotic it had been declared unconstitutional before he took over eight years

Article: Slain doctor's wife, Donna Moonda, heads to Connecticut ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  November 20, 2007 ;     327 words ...A Mercer County woman sentenced to life in prison for her conviction on charges of hiring her lover to kill her wealthy husband will serve her sentence at a minimum-security federal prison in Connecticut. Donna Moonda, 48, of Hermitage, has been sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in

Article: PRISON POPULATION BOOMING INMATES IN COLORADO ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Southern Bureau Colorado's state prison population grew nearly six times faster than ... cause of the state's fast-growing prison population. Colorado had 16,319 people in ... contributed to the growth in its prison population, said John Suthers, director of ...

Article: Prison population leveling off: ; Decreased ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six ... near the 77 percent spike in the prison population from 1990 to 2000. The data, from ... The result was an explosion in the prison population even as crime rates began to drop ...