# Connecticut

Connecticut has no outside certification for correction officers: the Department of Correction (DOC) hires and trains its own, and the State runs every prison and jail. Since 2023 the State has given the Correction Ombuds survey, oath, and subpoena powers, sent use-of-force reports to the warden, the Commissioner, and the State Police, made discipline records in officers’ files harder to shield by contract, banned private prisons and punitive diets, required public lists of excessive-force suits, and required compliance with the federal PREA standards in effect January 1, 2024.

Source: https://uscli.org/corrections-tracker/connecticut

## At a glance

- **Certifying body:** None for correction officers. DOC hires its own correction officers and trains them at the Maloney Center for Training and Staff Development. The Police Officer Standards and Training Council certifies police officers only; its definition of “police officer” does not include correction officers ([CGS 7-294a(9)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_104.htm)). See the [Connecticut Officer Ledger page](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/connecticut) for police certification. Adult probation officers work for the Judicial Branch’s Court Support Services Division; parole officers are DOC employees (CGS 18-78, 18-81, 54-103b, 54-104).
- **Statute:** CGS chapter 325, Department of Correction (§§ 18-78 to 18-101k), and chapter 323, York Correctional Institution (§§ 18-65 to 18-69e); adult probation in §§ 54-103 to 54-108g and parole in §§ 54-124 to 54-131 ([CGS ch. 325](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm); [ch. 961](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_961.htm)). The online statutes linked here are the January 1, 2025 revision; a note on each chapter refers readers to the 2026 Supplement (revised to January 1, 2026) for 2025 changes, so §§ 18-81nn and 18-81qq there show text from before the 2025 and 2026 acts below.
- **Minimum standards:** No statutory hiring standards for correction officers were found. DOC’s employment page states: “All positions require no felony convictions and proof of high school diploma or any other educational requirements... A drug test is required prior to employment.” It does not state a minimum age ([DOC employment page](https://portal.ct.gov/doc/employment/employment)). By statute, the Commissioners of Correction and Administrative Services must run state and national criminal history records checks on applicants for positions that will involve direct contact with inmates (CGS 18-81l).
- **Basic training:** Set by the agency, not by statute: “All hazardous duty positions require new employees to attend a 10-week training course” ([DOC employment page](https://portal.ct.gov/doc/employment/employment)).
- **In-service training:** No general statutory in-service hour requirement was found. DOC “may develop” a program of 4 to 8 hours a year of mental health training for custodial staff, covering suicide prevention, recognizing mental illness, communication, and alternatives to discipline and use of force; staff at facilities holding women may also receive 4 to 8 hours of gender-specific and trauma-related training ([CGS 18-96a(b)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm)). Parole officers hired on or after January 1, 2020 must receive resilience and self-care training (18-82a). Starting January 1, 2027, DOC must report each year on staff PREA training (PA 26-10).
- **Decertification:** None. Correction officers are not state-certified, so there is no decertification process or public decertification list; discipline runs through state personnel rules and collective bargaining. POST decertification (CGS 7-294d) applies to police officers only. Since June 30, 2025, new DOC bargaining agreements may not bar disclosure of discipline for violating administrative directives that is in an officer’s personnel file, and since January 1, 2026, excessive-force and medical-neglect suits against DOC that the Attorney General defends must be listed publicly (entries below).
- **Jail standards:** Connecticut has no county jails. DOC “shall consist of all correctional institutions under its jurisdiction, the regional community services facilities and the community correctional centers,” so pretrial detention is in State facilities (CGS 18-78). There is no separate jail-standards board. Outside oversight comes from the Office of the Correction Ombuds, in the Office of Governmental Accountability, which may visit facilities and review use-of-force procedures, and since 2025 may survey DOC employees, administer oaths, and, if the ombuds is a Superior Court commissioner, issue subpoenas ([CGS 18-81qq](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm), as amended by PA 25-161 and PA 26-40).
- **Probation and parole officers:** Adult probation officers work for the Judicial Branch’s Court Support Services Division (Office of Adult Probation). No state certification for them was found; they may detain people with warrants and seize contraband ([CGS 54-108d](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_961.htm)). Parole officers are DOC employees (Parole and Community Services) and must receive resilience and self-care training if hired on or after January 1, 2020 (CGS 18-82a). Neither group is certified by POST.
- **Restrictive housing:** CGS 18-96b (PROTECT Act, PA 22-18). “Isolated confinement” means cell confinement with less than 4 hours out of cell a day (5 hours for general population since April 1, 2023), except in an emergency, a lockdown, or for treatment. No one under 18 may be held in isolated confinement. Placement is allowed only after less restrictive measures are considered, for no more than 15 consecutive days or 30 days in any 60-day period. A medical exam and mental health evaluation are required within 24 hours, with a daily therapist check-in, at least 3 showers a week, and at least 2 hours out of cell a day. Isolated confinement may not be used for protective custody beyond a 5-business-day determination period. Lockdowns for staff training are capped at 24 cumulative hours in 30 days ([CGS 18-96b(a) to (g)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm)).
- **Corrections use of force:** A correction officer who sees another correction officer use force the witness “objectively knows to be excessive or illegal” must intervene and try to stop it, or may be prosecuted as an accessory. Since October 1, 2025, the witness reports to the facility warden, who reports immediately to the Commissioner and the State Police; retaliation is barred, and “use of force” expressly includes restraints, chemical agents, canines, chokeholds, munitions, and forcible cell extraction (CGS 18-81nn, as amended by PA 25-161). An authorized DOC official may use a chokehold or other neck restraint only when the official reasonably believes it necessary to defend the official or a third person from the use or imminent use of deadly physical force ([CGS 53a-22(d)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00029-R00HB-07259-PA.PDF), as amended by PA 25-29). At York CI, staff may not use leg or waist restraints on anyone known to be pregnant or postpartum, and may restrain a person known to be pregnant only with front wrist handcuffs, unless there is an immediate serious threat or a substantial flight risk and the unit administrator approves; no restraints may be used during labor or delivery ([CGS 18-69c(d), (e)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_323.htm)).

## Changes, 2023 to 2026

- Oct 1, 2026 — **Security officer license training waived for correction and parole officers** — Public Act 26-45 (HB 5291), sec. 12, amending CGS 29-161q · Approved May 26, 2026; effective October 1, 2026 — The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection must waive the training required for a security officer license for anyone currently employed, or separated in good standing within the past 2 years, as a DOC correction officer, a DOC parole officer, or a Judicial Branch judicial marshal, who shows proof of equivalent training. The same waiver covers police officers separated in good standing within 2 years who are not barred from rehiring under CGS 7-291c. — **For corrections staff:** If you take security work, current or recent DOC service with equivalent training can replace the license training. — [Public Act 26-45](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00045-R00HB-05291-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2026 — **Sexual violence crisis hotline: free and confidential, without staff supervision or permission** — Public Act 26-70 (HB 5476), sec. 13 · Approved May 27, 2026; effective October 1, 2026; revised policy due December 1, 2026 — By December 1, 2026, DOC must revise and post its policy on confidential sexual violence crisis hotlines. Incarcerated people must be able to reach the hotline at no charge, in a location that lets them call confidentially and “without the supervision of, or permission from, any employee of the Department of Correction.” — **For corrections staff:** Do not supervise, listen to, or require permission for calls to the sexual violence hotline. — [Public Act 26-70](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00070-R00HB-05476-PA.PDF)
- Jul 1, 2026 — **Federal PREA standards replace the National PREA Commission standards, with a duty to intervene and ombuds copies of sexual assault reports** — Public Act 26-10 (SB 89), amending CGS 18-81cc and 18-81qq · Approved May 7, 2026; effective July 1, 2026; reports and regulations due January 1, 2027 — Executive branch State agencies and political subdivisions that incarcerate or detain people must, within available appropriations, comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act standards (34 U.S.C. 30301) in effect January 1, 2024. Prior law said any agency of the State must “adopt and comply with” the National PREA Commission’s recommendations. New listed standards include a “Duty to intervene” and immediate and ongoing access to sexual assault crisis services. Staff and facility reporting duties now include sending the Office of the Correction Ombuds a copy of any sexual assault report or complaint, and section 2 adds receiving and reviewing those reports to the ombuds’ duties. DOC must report each year on staff PREA training and on reports and investigations, starting January 1, 2027, and must adopt regulations by that date. — **For corrections staff:** The PREA duty to intervene is now State law, and every sexual assault report you make or receive also goes to the Correction Ombuds. — [Public Act 26-10](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00010-R00SB-00089-PA.PDF)
- Jul 1, 2026 — **Request for proposals for a confidential sexual violence hotline for correction officers and incarcerated people** — Public Act 26-70 (HB 5476), sec. 12 · Approved May 27, 2026; effective July 1, 2026; request for proposals due October 1, 2026 — By October 1, 2026, the Commissioner must issue a request for proposals for “a confidential crisis hotline to report incidents of sexual violence for purposes of making such hotline available to correction officers and persons who are incarcerated,” including at York CI. Results and any appropriations request are due to three legislative committees by January 1, 2027. — **For corrections staff:** Correction officers are named users of the planned confidential hotline. — [Public Act 26-70](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00070-R00HB-05476-PA.PDF)
- May 26, 2026 — **Correction Ombuds may carry State cell phones inside facilities** — Public Act 26-40 (HB 5567), sec. 1, amending CGS 18-81qq; later amended by Public Act 26-130 (HB 5563), sec. 17 · Approved May 26, 2026; effective from passage. PA 26-130 approved June 4, 2026; effective from passage — Notwithstanding any DOC administrative directive, the Correction Ombuds may possess and use State-issued cell phones and other devices in any facility while on official duty. “Such possession and use of such cellular telephones shall not be restricted and such cellular telephones and other state-issued electronic communication devices shall not be deemed contraband.” The act also deletes the qualifier that, when corroborating incidents, the ombuds should rely on communications from incarcerated people who had reasonably pursued DOC’s internal grievance procedures. PA 26-130, sec. 17 then requires the ombuds to report each year, starting December 31, 2026, the number of complaints found not to warrant investigation and the reasons. — **For corrections staff:** Do not treat the ombuds’ State phone or devices as contraband or hold them at the gate. — [Public Act 26-40](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00040-R00HB-05567-PA.PDF)[Public Act 26-130](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00130-R00HB-05563-PA.PDF)
- May 11, 2026 — **Survivors of correction officers killed on duty: $100,000 death benefit and State employee health plan** — Public Act 26-12 (HB 5003), secs. 10 to 12, amending CGS 3-122a, 3-123bbb, and 5-259(a) · Approved May 11, 2026; effective from passage — The State employee health plan under CGS 5-259(a) is open to the surviving spouse and dependent children of a correction officer who dies from injuries received within the scope of employment, not from illness or natural causes, if they are not otherwise eligible for group coverage. Section 10 adds to CGS 3-122a a definition of “correction officer” as “an individual employed by the Department of Correction,” so the coverage reaches any DOC employee. Section 10 also adds correction officers to the $100,000 lump-sum death benefit that the Comptroller pays, within available appropriations, to the surviving family of a first responder killed in the line of duty. The Office of Legislative Research summary describes the act as adding correction officers, state marshals, investigators, and unpaid volunteer firefighters to this coverage; the extracted act text does not mark which words are new. Section 11 makes a related change for survivor coverage under partnership plans of nonstate public employers. — **For corrections staff:** Any DOC employee, not only custody staff, counts as a correction officer here. If you are killed in the line of duty, your surviving family can claim the $100,000 lump-sum death benefit, within available appropriations, and your spouse and children can get health coverage through the State plan. — [Public Act 26-12](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00012-R00HB-05003-PA.PDF)[OLR, 2026 Acts Affecting Criminal Justice and Public Safety](https://www.cga.ct.gov/olr/Documents/year/AA/2026AA-0078_2026%20Acts%20Affecting%20Criminal%20Justice%20and%20Public%20Safety.pdf)
- May 4, 2026 — **Inspector General death reviews cover deaths in DOC physical custody; the Inspector General may recommend action to DOC** — Public Act 26-14 (SB 397), sec. 3, amending CGS 51-277a · Approved May 4, 2026; effective from passage — Whenever a person dies “within the physical custody of the Commissioner of Correction,” the Inspector General must investigate and determine whether the person may have died as a result of criminal action. The act replaces “in the custody,” so the review now turns on physical custody rather than legal custody such as parole. The Inspector General refers cases for prosecution and may now issue a report that includes recommended future action by the Commissioner. The section’s peace officer definition includes adult probation officers and DOC officials authorized to make arrests in a facility. The [Connecticut Officer Ledger page](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/connecticut) covers the act’s other sections, including scene access in deadly-force cases. — **For corrections staff:** Every death in DOC physical custody gets an Inspector General criminal review, which may end in a report recommending future action by DOC. — [Public Act 26-14](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00014-R00SB-00397-PA.PDF)
- Jan 1, 2026 — **Public list of excessive-force and medical-neglect suits against DOC** — Public Act 25-161 (SB 1541), sec. 6 · Approved June 30, 2025; effective January 1, 2026 — The Office of the Correction Ombuds, with the Attorney General, must publish on both offices’ websites the case caption and party names of each case filed on or after January 1, 2026 against DOC “relating to excessive use of force or medical neglect” that the Attorney General defends. — **For corrections staff:** If you are named in such a suit, your name will appear on a public list. — [Public Act 25-161](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00161-R00SB-01541-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Use-of-force reports go to the warden, the Commissioner, and the State Police; officers may review recordings** — Public Act 25-161 (SB 1541), sec. 5, amending CGS 18-81nn · Approved June 30, 2025; effective October 1, 2025 — Before, a witnessing officer reported excessive force to the officer’s own immediate supervisor, who told the involved officer’s supervisor. Now the report goes to the warden of the facility, who must immediately report to the Commissioner and the State Police. An officer giving a formal use-of-force statement, or under disciplinary investigation where a recording is considered, may review the recording with an attorney or labor representative. The recording may be disclosed only to people in it (or their family, through the ombuds) or to committee leaders. DOC owed a body-worn camera implementation plan by January 1, 2026 and a report by February 1, 2026. A new subsection defines “use of force” to include restraints, chemical agents, canines, chokeholds, munitions, and forcible cell extraction. The duty to intervene and the protection from retaliation are unchanged. — **For corrections staff:** Report excessive force you see to the warden; when you give a formal use-of-force statement or face a disciplinary investigation that considers a recording, you may review the recording with your attorney or labor representative. — [Public Act 25-161](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00161-R00SB-01541-PA.PDF)[Prior text, CGS 18-81nn](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Neck restraints by correction officials allowed to defend a third person from deadly force** — Public Act 25-29 (HB 7259), sec. 9, amending CGS 53a-22(d) · Approved June 9, 2025; effective October 1, 2025 — A peace officer or an authorized official of the Department of Correction or the Board of Pardons and Paroles may use a chokehold or other restraint that impedes breathing or blood flow to the brain “only when he or she reasonably believes such use to be necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person from the use or imminent use of deadly physical force.” Before, only defense of the officer or official was covered. The [Connecticut Officer Ledger page](https://uscli.org/officer-certification-tracker/connecticut) covers the act’s other police provisions. — **For corrections staff:** A neck restraint is still limited to defense against deadly force, but that now includes defending another person. — [Public Act 25-29](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00029-R00HB-07259-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Nutraloaf and other punitive diets banned** — Public Act 25-168 (HB 7287), sec. 265 · Approved June 30, 2025; effective October 1, 2025 — The Commissioner must provide palatable and nutritious meals to everyone in DOC custody. “Under no circumstances shall the commissioner permit such persons to be fed nutraloaf as a form of discipline or any other punitive diet.” Nutraloaf is a mixture of foods blended and baked into a solid loaf; a punitive diet is one used for punishment. — **For corrections staff:** Food may not be used as discipline. — [Public Act 25-168](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00168-R00HB-07287-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Safe staffing duty and a correction officer recruitment and retention program** — Public Act 25-168 (HB 7287), sec. 268 · Approved June 30, 2025; effective October 1, 2025; program due January 1, 2026; first report due January 1, 2027 — The Commissioner must staff each facility “at a level to protect the safety of the staff who work at each such facility,” and of visitors, contractors, and incarcerated people. By January 1, 2026 the Commissioner had to develop and actively use a recruitment and retention program for correction officers, and from January 1, 2027 must report each year on compliance, including any shortcomings. — **For corrections staff:** Safe staffing is now a statutory duty of the Commissioner, with a yearly report to the Legislature on whether it is met. — [Public Act 25-168](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00168-R00HB-07287-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Private prisons banned; custody rests only with DOC employees** — Public Act 25-32 (SB 1328) · Approved June 9, 2025; effective October 1, 2025 — Custody and supervision of anyone held in a State correctional facility, community correctional center, or community reintegration center rests exclusively with the Commissioner and DOC employees. “The private ownership, operation or management of a state correctional facility, community correctional center or community reintegration center is prohibited.” Federal facilities and community-based service programs are exempt. — **For corrections staff:** Custody work in State facilities cannot be contracted out to private operators. — [Public Act 25-32](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00032-R00SB-01328-PA.PDF)
- Oct 1, 2025 — **Civil suits against correction officers may be served on a facility designee** — Public Act 25-78 (HB 7139), sec. 12 · Approved June 23, 2025; effective October 1, 2025 — A writ of summons in a civil action naming a DOC correctional officer or employee “may be served upon a person designated by the Commissioner of Correction at the correctional facility where the correctional officer or employee is assigned,” who acts as the officer’s agent for service. This does not apply where service can be made as in actions against the State. — **For corrections staff:** Lawsuit papers naming you may be served through a designee at your facility. — [Public Act 25-78](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00078-R00HB-07139-PA.PDF)
- Jun 30, 2025 — **Correction Ombuds gets survey, oath, and subpoena powers; contracts may not shield discipline records** — Public Act 25-161 (SB 1541), secs. 1 to 4, amending CGS 18-81jj(m), 18-81qq, and 1-24 · Approved June 30, 2025; effective from passage — The ombuds may send confidential surveys to incarcerated people or DOC employees about conditions of confinement or working conditions without DOC approval, but “No survey may be sent or distributed to an employee of the Department of Correction, unless the Correction Ombuds previously made such survey available for review and comment by the bargaining units representing such employees.” The ombuds is added to the officers who may administer oaths (CGS 1-24) and, if a commissioner of the Superior Court, may issue subpoenas. From January 6, 2027, the ombuds serves a 4-year term concurrent with the Governor’s (18-81jj(m)). Section 4: in agreements and arbitration awards approved on or after June 30, 2025, the Freedom of Information Act prevails over any provision that would block disclosure of DOC employees’ disciplinary matters or alleged misconduct, and no agreement or award with a DOC bargaining unit may prohibit disclosure of discipline in an officer’s personnel file for violating administrative directives. — **For corrections staff:** You may receive confidential ombuds surveys and may be put under oath or subpoenaed; discipline for directive violations in your file can be released under the Freedom of Information Act despite a newer contract. — [Public Act 25-161](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00161-R00SB-01541-PA.PDF)
- Jun 30, 2025 — **Protocol to fully document assaults on correctional staff** — Public Act 25-168 (HB 7287), sec. 269 · Approved June 30, 2025; effective from passage; documentation required from October 1, 2025 — “The Commissioner of Correction shall develop a protocol for full documentation of any assault by a person who is incarcerated on correctional staff. On and after October 1, 2025, each such assault shall be documented in accordance with such protocol.” — **For corrections staff:** Assaults on staff since October 1, 2025 must be documented under the DOC protocol. — [Public Act 25-168](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00168-R00HB-07287-PA.PDF)
- Jul 1, 2024 — **Peer support confidentiality extended to all DOC employees** — Public Act 24-67 (SB 342), amending CGS 52-146v · Approved May 30, 2024; effective July 1, 2024 — The “first responder” definition in the peer support privilege now includes “any employee of the Department of Correction.” Communications with a peer support team member are confidential and may not be compelled in civil, criminal, legislative, or administrative proceedings, with exceptions for statutory mandates, a clear and present danger, and team members who witnessed the incident. — **For corrections staff:** Any DOC employee, not only custody staff, can use peer support with legally protected confidentiality. — [Public Act 24-67](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/ACT/PA/PDF/2024PA-00067-R00SB-00342-PA.PDF)
- Jan 1, 2024 — **Gender identity rights extended to people diagnosed with gender incongruence** — Public Act 23-204 (HB 6941), sec. 305, amending CGS 18-81ii · Approved June 12, 2023; effective January 1, 2024 — The address, property, and same-gender-search rights in CGS 18-81ii, under which staff address incarcerated people by their gender identity, allow commissary, clothing, and programming items consistent with it, and assign searches to staff of the same gender identity, now also cover people diagnosed with gender incongruence, not only gender dysphoria. The separate placement presumption for people with gender-consistent identity documents was not changed. — **For corrections staff:** Apply the gender identity address, property, and search rules to people with a gender incongruence diagnosis. — [Public Act 23-204](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/PA/PDF/2023PA-00204-R00HB-06941-PA.PDF)[CGS ch. 325 history note](https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_325.htm)
- Jun 7, 2023 — **DOC must seek body scanners to reduce strip searches** — Public Act 23-12 (SB 1196), sec. 3 · Approved June 7, 2023; effective from passage — By January 1, 2024, the Commissioner had to issue a request for proposals for full-body x-ray scanners that “allow correctional facility staff to identify contraband such as weapons, cellphones and drugs, in and on the body,” and to reduce the number of strip searches. The Commissioner then had to report to the Judiciary, Finance, Revenue and Bonding, and Appropriations committees by February 1, 2024. — **For corrections staff:** The Legislature chose body scanning as the alternative to strip searches; the act does not require scanners. — [Public Act 23-12](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/PA/PDF/2023PA-00012-R00SB-01196-PA.PDF)

## Enacted, not yet in force, pending, and bills that did not pass

- **Ombuds term (PA 25-161, sec. 1):** from January 6, 2027, the Correction Ombuds serves a 4-year term concurrent with the Governor’s.
- **Hotline policy and request for proposals (PA 26-70, secs. 12 and 13):** revised policy due December 1, 2026; results report due January 1, 2027.
- **Ombuds complaint report (PA 26-130, sec. 17):** first report on complaints not investigated due December 31, 2026.
- **PREA regulations and reports (PA 26-10):** due January 1, 2027. No proposed regulation was checked in the eRegulations system.
- **Staffing and search reports (PA 25-168, secs. 268, 270, 271):** first staffing and recruitment report and first strip and cavity search report (counts, lawsuits, policy, and correction officer training requirements) due January 1, 2027; comparative evaluation of search directives due February 15, 2027.
- **Body-worn cameras (PA 25-161, sec. 5):** the implementation plan and report were due January 1 and February 1, 2026. Whether they were filed was not checked, and no camera mandate has been enacted.

No list of corrections bills that failed from 2023 to 2026 was compiled; the Office of Legislative Research reports used here list only passed acts. The 2025 to 2026 term has ended, so no bills carry over.

## Checked and unchanged

- CGS 18-96b (isolated confinement): PA 23-38 made technical changes only; the limits date from PA 22-18. CGS 18-96a (mental health training) was last amended in 2018.
- CGS 18-81qq was also amended by PA 25-168, sec. 187, effective October 1, 2025; that section was not compared line by line with PA 25-161.
- Not counted: PA 25-168, secs. 266, 267, and 272 (medical-record release forms, a study of relocating the New Haven and Bridgeport centers, and ombuds notice before reading medical records) do not change staff duties or standards.
- Not reviewed: the current minimum hiring age for correction officers, which no current official DOC page states, and pre-service training hours for Judicial Branch probation officers.