In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences.

They also questioned how the data and images collected by the scanners would be stored, and who would be able to access them.

EAST LYME — There are times when Carlos Troconis and his family fly in from Miami to see his daughter Michelle Troconis, who is serving a 14-year sentence in the death of Jennifer Dulos, only to be ...

As a young man incarcerated in the Department of Correction, Shakur Collins refused visits from his mother for about a year and a half, just to avoid having to be strip-searched. “ What that does is ...

Inside a workshop in Hamden, Connecticut, Michael Byrd and a co-worker are standing at their workstations. They’re sanding thin slabs of wood — the first step in building a bookcase. These bookcases ...