Northern Correctional Institution News

Northern Correctional Institution will be in lockdown until Wednesday morning after authorities said an inmate assaulted a correction officer with a makeshift knife this afternoon.

Nicholas Trabakoulos did not go gently into a lengthy prison sentence. The 32-year-old former Groton resident has misbehaved during a series of court appearances on robbery and firearms charges.

An inmate at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers can stand trial for the July killing of his cellmate, a judge ruled Friday in Superior Court in Rockville .

A convicted killer strangled his prison cellmate to death in July and carved his own nickname into the victim's chest, according to court records released Friday .

Officials are investigating how an inmate at Connecticut's maximum security prison was able to set his mattress on fire inside his cell.

Just save the money. That's what the state's prisons are being told by the legislature.

Operations have returned to normal in all but one section of Northern Correctional Institution, where three separate attacks on prison guards occurred last week, a state Department of Correction spokesman said Monday.

Connecticut prison officials have lifted most of a lockdown imposed at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers following assaults on three prison guards.

A few miles from where Ray Clark sits in prison, 10 men await execution on Connecticut's death row .

The Northern Correctional Institution in Somers has been locked down for the weekend after three correction officers were assaulted on Friday afternoon.

Connecticut prison officials are removing metal lockers from cells at the maximum-security Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, after two inmates reportedly made knives from locker parts and stabbed another prisoner.

If, as expected, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, the alleged killers of the wife and daughters of William Petit, are sentenced to death by lethal injection next year, they will join 11 other men on Connecticut's death row and remain there for as long as they both shall live.

John A. Kissel has requested a corrections investigation into a increase in violence recently at the facility.

A 25 year-old New Haven hanged himself in jail, according to the state Department of Corrections.

The next time you pick a place to live, don't be afraid to consider a prison town.

Accused murderer Sean Dowden was arrested on new charges last week after correction officers at a Somers prison said they found him with a "shank" made from a sharpened toothbrush.

A correction officer at Northern Correctional Institution -- the state's "supermax" prison -- suffered facial injuries after an inmate punched him without provocation this morning.

Two weeks after she asked the state Senate to immediately transmit the legislation so she could veto it, Gov.

Shortly after 4 a.m. last Thursday, after an 11-hour debate, the state Senate passed House Bill 6578 repealing the death penalty for capital felonies.