BRIDGEPORT -- Ernest E. Newton II, the flamboyant state legislator sentenced to a five-year prison term in 2006 on federal corruption charges, has been released to the custody of a halfway house in ...
The State Appeals Board has approved paying Newton Correctional Facility employees backpay for the time it took for them to take COVID-19 tests during the height of the pandemic. The three-person ...
Inmates at the state prison in Newton began building homes in 2019 and the program has reached a major milestone. The 150th modular home built on a 100-acre site inside the prison complex was ...