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Section 18-78. - Composition of department. - There is established a state Department of Correction which shall...
Section 18-78a. - Applicability of Uniform Administrative Procedure Act to department. Exceptions. - (a)(1) The provisions of chapter 54 shall apply to the...
Section 18-78b. - Victim Services Unit. Duties and responsibilities. - There is established a Victim Services Unit within the Department...
Section 18-79. - Council of Correction. - Section 18-79 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 152, S. 2; P.A....
Section 18-80. - Commissioner. - In accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8,...
Section 18-81. - Duties of commissioner. - The Commissioner of Correction shall administer, coordinate and control the...
Section 18-81a. - Habeas corpus for person in custody of commissioner. - Whenever any writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum or ad...
Section 18-81aa. - Secure video connections for parole release hearings. - Not later than January 1, 2009, the Department of Correction...
Section 18-81b. - Informational and educational experiences for the public. - The Commissioner of Correction may provide to the public such...
Section 18-81bb. - Advisory committees established in certain municipalities with correctional facilities. - Section 18-81bb is repealed, effective October 1, 2021. (P.A. 11-148,...
Section 18-81c. - Community Partners in Action: Office space and telephone service. - The Commissioner of Correction shall provide office space and telephone...
Section 18-81cc. - Prevention, detection and monitoring of, and response to, sexual abuse in prisons, jails, correctional centers and juvenile facilities. - (a) Any agency of the state or any political subdivision...
Section 18-81d. - Medical and dental treatment of inmates under age of eighteen. - (a) When he deems it in the best interest of...
Section 18-81dd. - Amendment to contract with municipality in which a correctional facility is located. - The legislative body of any municipality in which a correctional...
Section 18-81e. - Notification of victim of release of inmate from correctional facility. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “victim” includes the...
Section 18-81ee. - Pilot program re use of renewable energy at correctional facilities. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction may conduct a pilot program...
Section 18-81f. - Notification of municipal official concerning status of temporary detention facility. - The Commissioner of Correction or his designee shall provide written...
Section 18-81ff. - State identification card or motor vehicle operator's license for inmates upon release. - The Commissioners of Correction and Motor Vehicles shall, within available...
Section 18-81g. (Formerly Sec. 17a-645). - Community-based treatment facility for female offenders. - The Department of Correction shall, within the available appropriations of...
Section 18-81gg. - Visitation policies for inmate who is a parent to a child under the age of eighteen. - The Commissioner of Correction shall establish visitation policies for any...
Section 18-81h. - Public safety committees established in municipalities with correctional facilities. Reports. - (a) Each municipality in which a correctional facility is located...
Section 18-81hh. - Privacy-related protections for certain inmate activities. - All inmates shall be permitted to shower, perform bodily functions...
Section 18-81i. - Storage of weapons. - (a) Any firearm, ammunition or deadly weapon owned by the...
Section 18-81ii. - Care and treatment of inmate with a gender identity differing from assigned sex at birth and a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Placement of inmate in correctional institution with inmates of the gender consistent with the inmate's g... - Any inmate of a correctional institution, as described in section...
Section 18-81j. - Annual notification of municipal official in municipalities with correctional facilities concerning capacity and inmate population in facility. - On or before November 1, 1995, and annually thereafter, the...
Section 18-81jj. - Correction Advisory Committee. - (a) There is established the Correction Advisory Committee that shall...
Section 18-81k. - Maintenance of good relations between department and communities surrounding correctional facilities. - The Commissioner of Correction shall develop a policy to ensure...
Section 18-81kk. - Requests for department's provision of documents related to injury resulting in death or permanent disability of inmate. Regulations. - An inmate, his or her legal representative or the legal...
Section 18-81l. - Criminal history records checks of correctional personnel. - The Department of Correction shall (1) require each applicant for...
Section 18-81ll. - Department's responsibilities re release of medical information by inmate to family or emergency contact. - The Department of Correction shall post on its Internet web...
Section 18-81m. - Notification re existence of standing criminal protective order upon release. - When any person against whom a standing criminal protective order...
Section 18-81mm. - Release of inmate self-identified as suffering from opioid use disorder. Information provided. - Not later than forty-five days before the scheduled release of...
Section 18-81n. - Notification of municipal official concerning agreement for medical care of inmates. - The Commissioner of Correction, or his designee, shall provide written...
Section 18-81nn. - Intervention in or reporting of use of unreasonable, excessive or illegal force by a witnessing officer. Whistle blower protections. - (a) Any correction officer who witnesses another correction officer use...
Section 18-81o. - Notification of municipal official and public safety committee concerning agreement for placement of persons in correctional facility. - The Commissioner of Correction or his designee shall provide written...
Section 18-81oo. - Communication services in correctional facilities. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction shall not use the provision...
Section 18-81p. - Review of substance use disorder, screening, diagnostic and treatment services and mental health screening, diagnostic and treatment services. - The Commissioner of Correction, in consultation with the Department of...
Section 18-81pp. - Plan for the provision of health care services to inmates. Report. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Advanced practice registered...
Section 18-81q. - Return of unused prescription drugs dispensed in correctional facilities to vendor pharmacies. Requirements. Regulations. - (a) Each correctional institution shall return to the vendor pharmacy...
Section 18-81qq. - Office of the Correction Ombuds. - (a)(1) There is, within the Office of Governmental Accountability established...
Section 18-81r. - Ombudsman services. - Section 18-81r is repealed, effective May 7, 2010. (June Sp....
Section 18-81s. - Pilot program for debit account telephone system. - Section 18-81s is repealed, effective July 8, 2019. (P.A. 02-104,...
Section 18-81t. - Quarterly report on disciplinary reports, inmate assaults, workers' compensation claims and inmate population density for each correctional facility. - (a) Not later than thirty days after September 30, 2009,...
Section 18-81u. - Use of computer with Internet access by certain inmates prohibited. - The Commissioner of Correction shall prohibit any person who has...
Section 18-81v. - Procedures for conducting metal detector searches of visitors. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction shall ensure that the following...
Section 18-81w. - Development and implementation of reentry strategy. - (a) The Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division within the...
Section 18-81x. - (Note: This section is repealed, effective October 1, 2022.) Funds for inmate educational services and reentry program initiatives. - For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, and each...
Section 18-81y. - Lost property board. - The Commissioner of Correction shall establish a lost property board...
Section 18-81z. - Development of risk assessment strategy. - The Department of Correction, the Board of Pardons and Paroles...
Section 18-82. - Administrators of correctional institutions: Appointment, removal and qualifications. - The Commissioner of Correction shall appoint and may remove the...
Section 18-82a. - Parole officer training on resilience and self-care techniques. - In consultation with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction...
Section 18-83. - Acceptance of bequests, devises and gifts. - The Commissioner of Correction may accept and receive, on behalf...
Section 18-84. - “Inmate” and “prisoner” defined. - The terms “inmate” and “prisoner”, as used in this title...
Section 18-84a. - Discharge savings accounts. Regulations. - Section 18-84a is repealed, effective October 1, 2018. (P.A. 07-158,...
Section 18-85. - Compensation of inmates. Deposit in account. Disbursement priorities. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction, after consultation with the Commissioner...
Section 18-85a. - Assessment for costs of incarceration. State's claim against inmate's property for repayment of costs of incarceration. Exempt property. Program fees. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction shall adopt regulations, in accordance...
Section 18-85b. - State's claim against proceeds of person's cause of action or person's inheritance for repayment of costs of incarceration. - (a) In the case of causes of action of any...
Section 18-85c. - State's claim against person's estate for repayment of costs of incarceration. - Upon the death of any person obligated to pay the...
Section 18-86. - Transfers between institutions of department. - The commissioner may transfer any inmate of any of the...
Section 18-86a. - Contracts with other states for confinement of Connecticut inmates. - The Commissioner of Correction may enter into one or more...
Section 18-86b. - Contracts with governmental and private vendors for supervision of state inmates outside the state. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 18-105 to 18-107, inclusive,...
Section 18-86c. - Contracts re release of inmates. - Any contract entered into between the Commissioner of Correction and...
Section 18-86d. - Agreements with institutions of higher education re free courses for inmates. - An institution of higher education that enters into an agreement...
Section 18-86e. - Reentry employment advisory committee. - (a) There is established a reentry employment advisory committee that...
Section 18-87. - Transfers to other state institutions and to the executive director of the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch. - The Commissioner of Correction may transfer any inmate of any...
Section 18-87a to 18-87f. - Contracts with private agencies for: Halfway house handling of prerelease inmates; reentry services for paroled or discharged offenders. Early release: Pretrial inmates; sentenced inmates. Prison overcrowding emergency: De... - Sections 18-87a to 18-87f, inclusive, are repealed. (1972, P.A. 11,...
Section 18-87i. - Emergency correctional facility projects and large increases in correctional facility inmate populations: Notices, negotiated agreements between state and municipalities, arbitration. - Section 18-87i is repealed, effective October 1, 1999. (P.A. 89-353,...
Section 18-87j. - Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission. - There is established a Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission which...
Section 18-87k. - Powers and duties of commission. - (a) The Criminal Justice Policy Advisory Commission shall: (1) Develop...
Section 18-87l. - New Haven Armory not to be used to house prisoners or other detainees. - The New Haven Armory may not be used in any...
Section 18-87m. - Alternatives to Incarceration Advisory Committee: Membership, duties, report. Commissioner to implement alternatives to incarceration initiatives to reduce prison population. - Section 18-87m is repealed, effective July 1, 2006. (June 30...
Section 18-88. (Formerly Sec. 18-14). - Industrial activities. State agencies required to purchase necessary products from institution industries. Retail hobby stores. - (a) The commissioner shall use the industrial fund for the...
Section 18-88a. - Correction Industries Revolving Fund, charge for fringe benefits prohibited. - The Comptroller shall not charge the Correction Industries Revolving Fund...
Section 18-89. (Formerly Sec. 18-9). - Contracts for labor; public institutions. - No contract or agreement shall be made for the labor...
Section 18-90. (Formerly Sec. 18-10). - Prisoners; employment restricted. - Section 18-90 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3005; P.A. 77-614,...
Section 18-90a. - Employment of inmates. - The Commissioner of Correction may permit any inmate of a...
Section 18-90b. - Pilot program for inmate labor in private industry. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction may establish a pilot program...
Section 18-90c. - Investigation of certain inmates re child support orders and arrearages. - When any person is committed to the custody of the...
Section 18-90d. - Vocational village program. - (a) There is established a vocational village program that shall...
Section 18-90e. - Preparation for and administration of commercial driver's license knowledge tests in institution or facility. - (a) As used in this section, “disqualification” has the same...
Section 18-91. (Formerly Sec. 18-16). - Use of correctional institutions by United States. Removal of inmates to federal institutions. - (a) Any institution of the department may be used, for...
Section 18-91a. - International transfer or exchange of prisoners. - (a) If a treaty between the United States and a...
Section 18-92. - Expiration of term on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. - When the term of any inmate of any institution of...
Section 18-93. - Rules re clothing, transportation, grants and loans to discharged persons. - The Commissioner of Correction may make rules for the furnishing...
Section 18-94. (Formerly Sec. 17-16). - Retention of inmates with sexually transmitted disease in correctional or charitable institutions. - When the medical officer of, or any physician, physician assistant...
Section 18-95. (Formerly Sec. 17-18). - Compensation for injuries of inmates of state correctional and reformatory institutions. - Section 18-95 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2853; 1961, P.A....
Section 18-96. (Formerly Sec. 18-22). - Proceedings on discharge of mentally ill prisoners. - Section 18-96 is repealed, effective October 1, 2007. (1949 Rev.,...
Section 18-96a. - Consideration of psychiatrist diagnosis in assessment of and providing mental health services to inmate with a mental illness. Mental health issues training for custodial staff. Agency collaboration re assistance to inmate with a me... - (a) When assessing and subsequently providing mental health services to...
Section 18-96b. - Restrictive housing status and isolated confinement for incarcerated persons. Reports. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Administrative segregation status”...
Section 18-97. - Confinement under a mittimus: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981. - Any person receiving a fine or a sentence to a...
Section 18-98. - Confinement where bail unobtainable: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981. - Any person who has been denied bail or who has...
Section 18-98a. - Deduction of time for periods of employment. - Each person committed to the custody of the Commissioner of...
Section 18-98b. - Outstandingly meritorious performance award. - In addition to any commutation or diminution of sentence or...
Section 18-98c. - Good conduct credit for presentence confinement prior to July 1, 1981. - In addition to the time credits provided for in sections...
Section 18-98d. - Credit for presentence confinement. - (a)(1)(A) Any person who is confined to a community correctional...
Section 18-98e. - Earned risk reduction credit. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any person...
Section 18-98f. - Use of earned risk reduction credits. Report. - Section 18-98f is repealed, effective October 1, 2021. (P.A. 15-216,...
Section 18-98g. - General offender sentencing information made publically available. - The Department of Correction shall make publically available general offender...
Section 18-99. - Camp for community correctional center, Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire, and School for Boys inmates. - Section 18-99 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 651, S. 1–3; 1971,...
Section 18-99a. - Creation and administration of school district within the Department of Correction. Unified School District #1. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction may establish a school district...
Section 18-99b. - Powers of district. Cooperation with federal government. Provision of menstrual products. - (a) The school district acting by the Commissioner of Correction...
Section 18-100. - Work-release and education-release programs. Transfer to correctional institution, halfway house, group home, mental health facility or community or private residence. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction, or such person as said...
Section 18-100a and 18-100b. - Petty cash fund for loans for work-release program. Release of prisoners to an approved community residence; eligibility. - Sections 18-100a and 18-100b are repealed. (1969, P.A. 609, S....
Section 18-100c. - Release of prisoners with definite sentences of two years or less to halfway house, group home, mental health facility or other approved community correction program. - A person convicted of a crime who is incarcerated on...
Section 18-100d. - Supervision of persons convicted of a crime committed on or after October 1, 1994, required until expiration of sentence. - Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, any person...
Section 18-100e. - Pilot zero-tolerance drug supervision program. - (a) Not later than October 1, 1998, the Commissioner of...
Section 18-100f. - Release of certain arrested persons being held pretrial. - Unless otherwise ordered by the court, whenever an arrested person...
Section 18-100g. - Release of aliens to immigration authorities. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any alien convicted...
Section 18-100h. - Release of persons convicted of certain motor vehicle and drug offenses to their residences. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, whenever a...
Section 18-100i. - Release of inmate from custody and transfer to community-based nursing home for palliative and end-of-life care. - (a) The Commissioner of Correction, at the commissioner's discretion, may...
Section 18-100j. - Pilot treatment program for methadone maintenance and other drug therapies. - Not later than October 1, 2013, the Department of Correction...
Section 18-101. - Disposition of inmate compensation. - (a) Whenever any inmate to whom privileges have been granted...
Section 18-101a. - Furloughs. - The Commissioner of Correction, at the commissioner's discretion, may extend...
Section 18-101b. - Residential stays at correctional facilities. Continuation in programs beyond discharge date. - (a) Any inmate of a correctional facility under the authority...
Section 18-101c. - Special alternative incarceration unit. Program activities. - Section 18-101c is repealed. (P.A. 89-390, S. 17, 37; June...
Section 18-101d. - Donald T. Bergin Correctional Institution. - Section 18-101d is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (June Sp....
Section 18-101e. - Calculation of disability retirement income for correction officers upon designation of extraordinary circumstances. - (a) Whenever a correction officer who is a member of...
Section 18-101f. - Prohibition against disclosure of certain employee files to inmates under the Freedom of Information Act. - A personnel or medical file or similar file concerning a...
Section 18-101g. - Establishment of wellness initiative for certain employees. - The Commissioner of Correction shall, within available appropriations, establish a...
Section 18-101h. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Department” means the Department...
Section 18-101i. - Community-based service programs established. - (a) To establish and develop noninstitutional, community-based service programs, the...
Section 18-101j. - Community correction service areas established. - There shall be five community correction service areas corresponding to...
Section 18-101k. - Funding. - (a) In establishing the level of funds in each service...