Garner Correctional Institution News

Holiday spirit can be found in all the nooks and crannies of society, including behind bars.

A Garner Correctional Institution inmate will have to serve 18 months in federal prison for sending a bomb threat to a federal agency in Norwalk.

Nearly two decades ago, building a prison in Newtown was about as popular as building a toxic waste dump in the shadows of Fairfield Hills.

Local reaction was quick and vehement two decades ago, after the Department of Correction proposed the construction of a prison adjacent to the Fairfield Hills Hospital.

Following a fire that was intentionally set in a prison cell by inmates at the state's high-security Garner Correctional Institution on Nunnawauk Road on October 14, three correction officers were transported to Danbury Hospital for treatment of injuries, according to a state Department of Correction spokesman.

Following an incident in Garner Correctional Institution late on the morning of July 27, state police arrested an inmate there charging him with having committed a bias crime in connection with an assault against another male prisoner.

Following an incident in Garner Correctional Institution late on the morning of July 27, state police arrested an inmate there charging him with having committed a bias crime in connection with an assault against another male prisoner.

During a time when the state Department of Correction is recovering from 425 of its employees retiring, including its commissioner, for two new wardens in the region the move to the top spot heading local correctional facilities was a natural one.

Following an incident in Garner Correctional Institution late on the morning of July 27, state police arrested an inmate there charging him with having committed a bias crime in connection with an assault against another male prisoner.

Scott Semple, right, is the new warden at Garner Correctional Institution, the statea TMs high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road.

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.