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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. There are no county jails in Connecticut, all inmates are in custody of the Department of Correction. [2]
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After 1960, when Connecticut dissolved county governance, the jail property was absorbed and operated by the State of Connecticut. The prison held British people during the War of 1812. [3] In the early 20th century an addition was built joining Litchfield Jail to the First National Bank of Litchfield, an 1816 structure. [2]
The Fairfield County Jail was a historic penal facility at 1106 North Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut.Built in 1870-71, it served as a jail and prison for over a century, and was the state's oldest such facility in active use at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is the government agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 18 correctional facilities. The agency operates 18 correctional facilities.
FCI Danbury is located in southwestern Connecticut, approximately 55 miles (89 km) from New York City, [17] 60 miles (97 km) from Hartford, Connecticut, and 150 miles (240 km) from Boston, Massachusetts. [9] The facility is accessible to a MetroNorth station fewer than 4 miles (6.4 km) from the facility.
Although Connecticut is divided into counties, there are no county-level governments, and local government in Connecticut exists solely at the municipal level. [2] Almost all functions of county government were abolished in Connecticut in 1960, [3] except for elected county sheriffs and their departments under them. Those offices and their ...
The Hartford County Sheriff's Department (also known as the Hartford County Sheriff's Office) was a 300-person law enforcement agency that served the twenty-nine towns of Hartford County, Connecticut in North Central Connecticut. Hartford County was constituted in 1666. The Code of 1650 of the General Court of Connecticut allowed "the marshall ...