The Department of Correction has agreed to pause the introduction of electronic body scanners in state prisons after state officials charged with overseeing the well-being of incarcerated individuals ...

As a young man incarcerated in the Department of Correction, Shakur Collins refused visits from his mother for about a year and a half, just to avoid having to be strip-searched. “ What that does is ...

CLEARFIELD — Problems with drugs at the Clearfield County Jail have led to the county purchasing a full body scanner for the facility. During a recent prison board meeting, Warden Dave Gallagher noted ...

An effort to end routine strip searches in Connecticut’s correctional facilities is unlikely to succeed this year as lawmakers have instead opted to gather information on what it would take to ...

House lawmakers on Tuesday passed a watered-down version of a bill that initially sought to end routine strip searches in Connecticut’s prisons and jails, sending the revised legislation to Gov. Ned ...

Sure, airport body scanners are looking for threats, but here’s what else these security devices might reveal in the process ...