Northern Correctional Institution

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Northern Correctional Institution is a high-security state prison in Somers, in the northern part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The prison houses the state's Death Row inmates and convicts serving long sentences for violent crimes.

It is the designated restrictive housing facility for the Connecticut Department of Correction, managing those inmates who have demonstrated a serious inability to adjust to confinement. Particularly those that pose a threat to the safety and security of the community, staff, and other inmates.

The institution Group Safety Threat Member program was relocated from the Garner Correctional Institution in order to centralize restrictive housing functions. In response to this, and with a commensurate increase in the number of young offenders, the facility more than doubled the size of its educational staff in order to serve those inmates who fall under federal mandates and require special education.

1 History
2 List of past wardens
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The Northern C.I. was completed in January 1995 and received its first inmates in March of 1995. Also in 1995, Connecticut's death row inmates were moved to the Northern C.I. from the Osborn C.I.

In February of 1997 the Chronic Disciplinary Unit arrived at Northern.

In November of 1999 the Special Risk Group Threat population arrived.

In November of 2000 the Chronic Disciplinary Unit was removed from the facility.

In September of 2004 the Chronic Disciplinary Unit was returned to the facility.

As of July 1, 2007 the prison has 453 inmates. The prison is controlled by 310 personnel from the Connecticut Department of Correction under the supervision of Warden Jeffrey E. McGill and Deputy Wardens Terence Rose, Valerie Light and Neftali Rodriguez.^[1]