Title 18, Title 18: Correctional Institutions and Department of Correction

Sec. 18-91. (Formerly Sec. 18-16). Use of correctional institutions by United States. Removal of inmates to federal institutions. (a) Any institution of the department may be used, for confining any person held under the authority of any United States statute including persons de…

Sec. 18-91a. International transfer or exchange of prisoners. (a) If a treaty between the United States and a foreign country provides for the transfer or exchange of convicted offenders to the country of which they are citizens or nationals, the Commissioner of Correction may, o…

Sec. 18-92. Expiration of term on Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. When the term of any inmate of any institution of the Department of Correction expires on a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday, he shall be discharged on the last business day preceding. (1967, P.A. 152, S. 3…

Sec. 18-93. Rules re clothing, transportation, grants and loans to discharged persons. The Commissioner of Correction may make rules for the furnishing of clothing, transportation, grants or loans to persons discharged from his custody. (1967, P.A. 152, S. 47.)

Sec. 18-94. (Formerly Sec. 17-16). Retention of inmates with sexually transmitted disease in correctional or charitable institutions. When the medical officer of, or any physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse employed in, any correctional or charitab…

Sec. 18-95. (Formerly Sec. 17-18). Compensation for injuries of inmates of state correctional and reformatory institutions. Section 18-95 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2853; 1961, P.A. 580, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 110; P.A. 76-136, S. 3, 4.)

Sec. 18-96. (Formerly Sec. 18-22). Proceedings on discharge of mentally ill prisoners. Section 18-96 is repealed, effective October 1, 2007. (1949 Rev., S. 3016; 1961, P.A. 580, S. 10; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 86-186, S. 16; P.A. 87-282, S. 16; P.A. 07-158, S. 8.)

Sec. 18-96a. Consideration of psychiatrist diagnosis in assessment of and providing mental health services to inmate with a mental illness. Mental health issues training for custodial staff. Agency collaboration re assistance to inmate with a mental illness upon release. Report r…

Sec. 18-96b. Restrictive housing status and isolated confinement for incarcerated persons. Reports. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Administrative segregation status” means the Department of Correction's practice of placing an incarcerated person on restrictive housing status f…

Sec. 18-97. Confinement under a mittimus: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981. Any person receiving a fine or a sentence to a correctional institution or a community correctional center for an offense committed prior to July 1, 1981, shall receive credit towards …

Sec. 18-98. Confinement where bail unobtainable: Presentence confinement credit prior to July 1, 1981. Any person who has been denied bail or who has been unable to obtain bail and who is subsequently imprisoned for an offense committed prior to July 1, 1981, is entitled to commu…

Sec. 18-98a. Deduction of time for periods of employment. Each person committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction who is employed within the institution to which he was sentenced, or outside as provided by section 18-100, for a period of seven consecutive days, exc…

Sec. 18-98b. Outstandingly meritorious performance award. In addition to any commutation or diminution of sentence or any meritorious time service award which may have been granted under section 18-7 or 18-7a, any inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction …

Sec. 18-98c. Good conduct credit for presentence confinement prior to July 1, 1981. In addition to the time credits provided for in sections 18-97 and 18-98, any person who has been denied bail or who has been unable to obtain bail and who subsequently is fined or sentenced to a …

Sec. 18-98d. Credit for presentence confinement. (a)(1)(A) Any person who is confined to a community correctional center or a correctional institution for an offense committed on or after July 1, 1981, and prior to October 1, 2021, under a mittimus or because such person is unabl…

Sec. 18-98e. Earned risk reduction credit. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment for a crime committed on or after October 1, 1994, and committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction on or after said …

Sec. 18-98f. Use of earned risk reduction credits. Report. Section 18-98f is repealed, effective October 1, 2021. (P.A. 15-216, S. 1; P.A. 18-155, S. 2; P.A. 21-97, S. 9.)

Sec. 18-98g. General offender sentencing information made publically available. The Department of Correction shall make publically available general offender sentencing information. Such information shall include: (1) The inmate release mechanisms under the authority of the depar…

Sec. 18-99. Camp for community correctional center, Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire, and School for Boys inmates. Section 18-99 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 651, S. 1–3; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 410; P.A. 76-324, S. 1, 2.)

Sec. 18-99a. Creation and administration of school district within the Department of Correction. Unified School District #1. (a) The Commissioner of Correction may establish a school district within the Department of Correction for the education or assistance of any person confin…

Sec. 18-99b. Powers of district. Cooperation with federal government. Provision of menstrual products. (a) The school district acting by the Commissioner of Correction shall have the power to (1) establish and maintain within the Department of Correction such schools of different…

Sec. 18-102. New England Interstate Corrections Compact. The New England Interstate Corrections Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with any other of the hereinafter-mentioned states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: NEW E…

Sec. 18-103. Designation of state authorities and officials. As used in paragraph (a) of Article IV of the New England Interstate Corrections Compact “duly constituted authorities” means the Commissioner of Correction and as used in paragraph (b) of said Article “appropriate offi…

Sec. 18-104. Administration of compact. The Commissioner of Correction shall administer the provisions of this compact, and in the performance of such duty he may delegate his authority to an employee of the department. (1961, P.A. 326, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 471.) History: 1969 act ma…

Sec. 18-105. Short title: Interstate Corrections Compact. This chapter may be cited as the “Interstate Corrections Compact”. (P.A. 73-354, S. 1, 4.)

Sec. 18-106. Compact. The Interstate Corrections Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this state with any other states legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT ARTICLE I The party states, desiring by common act…

Sec. 18-107. Duty of Commissioner of Correction. The Commissioner of Correction is authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular and he may in his discretion delegate this authority to other persons. (P.A. …