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This is a list of current and former state prisons in Connecticut. [1] These prisons are overseen by the Connecticut Department of Correction.. This list does not include federal prisons located in the state of Connecticut.
It was an unprofitable copper mine that opened in 1705. The state began to use the tunnels as a prison during the Revolutionary War. In 1790 Old Newgate became the state prison for men and served in that capacity until 1827 when a new state prison was opened in Wethersfield. [3]
The Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center is a Level 3 & 4 high-security prison with two facilities for male offenders, in the Uncasville section of Montville, Connecticut. The prison was opened on December 30, 1994. [citation needed] It is a part of the Connecticut Department of Correction.
Cheshire Correctional Institution is a Connecticut Department of Correction state prison for men located in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut.The facility was built beginning in 1910, partly by the inmates of the Wethersfield State Prison, and opened in 1913 as the Chester Reformatory for male youths ages 16 to 24.
Hartford Correctional Center is one of 18 correctional facilities in Connecticut, United States.The correctional center is located in Hartford, Connecticut.The facility was opened in 1977, with its first warden being Richard Wezowicz.
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Janet S. York Correctional Institution is Connecticut's only state prison for women, located in Niantic. The facility opened in its current form in October, 1994, and houses a maximum of 1500 at a range of security levels from minimum to super maximum. [1] The site was first founded in 1918 as the Connecticut State Farm and Reformatory for ...