Garner Correctional Institution News

Carson J. Mueller spent several days planning his suicide after strangling his mother in her Griswold home on Dec.

Newtown police officers and correction officers from Garner Correctional Institution ran in the Newtown leg of the Special Olympics Torch Run on Friday, June 5. The participants take part to show their support for the Connecticut Special Olympics program.

An excess number of unsentenced inmates who were being held at Hartford Correctional Center have been transferred to Garner Correctional Institution at 50 Nunnawauk Road, as the state Department of Correction makes some inmate housing transfers to better manage its prisoner population.

The Coventry man awaiting trial on a charge of fatally shooting his pregnant girlfriend wrote several suicide notes before he hanged himself with a bed sheet in prison, according to a state Department of Correction investigation.

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport returned an Indictment today charging GLEN SHARKANY, 40, with one count of making a bomb threat and one count of conveying false information.

BRIDGEPORT a ' A federal grand jury on March 17 returned an indictment charging an inmate being held at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown with two criminal counts involving a bomb threat made against the offices of two federal agencies located in Norwalk.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted an inmate at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown on charges he threatened to bomb Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service offices in Norwalk.

Connecticut state police and prison officials say they're investigating the apparent suicide of an inmate at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown.

State police and prison officials are investigating the suicide of an inmate at Garner Correctional Institution.

An inmate at the Garner Correctional Institution on Nunnawauk Road was charged with assaulting a corrections officer Friday.

The co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee said Monday he believes the state has spent $200,000 to $500,000 providing a one-on-one, around-the-clock suicide watch for one of the two men ...