Dear Friends,  It has been an exciting year here at the Collaborative Center for Justice! Since our last appeal, your support helped fuel our contributions to two statewide legislative victories that will improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents!   With municipal election season here, many of us […]

The Issue The Clean Slate criminal justice reform bill (S.B.1019) that we support is coming up for a vote in the state House any day now. Last week it successfully made it out of the Senate. This is the final push before it makes it to Governor Lamont’s desk and, […]

The Issue:  In Connecticut, as of November 6, 2020, over 400 Department of Corrections staff, and 1,670 incarcerated people have contracted the coronavirus. There are 9,354 people incarcerated in Connecticut’s jails and prisons. The nonpartisan Marshall Project ranks Connecticut among the worst in the nation in per capita COVID-19 transmission in its correctional facilities. Even as the pandemic […]

The first two opportunities mark the kickoff of our Public Theology Conversation Series. For each conversation, we will be joined by intellectuals, organizers, and public figures to discuss the challenges (and opportunities) that face our nation, and how our values might spur us into action in pursuit of justice. Each […]

There is still time to speak up against the proposed fracked-gas power plant in Killingly! Your input is needed by October 9th On October 1st, a public hearing will be held on the permit application to allow NTE Connecticut to dump waste water associated with the power plant into public […]

Please see the action alert below from leaders at CT Students for a Dream. While details haven’t yet been released about a September special legislative session in CT, we have read this report about a possible session on September 29 and 30.  We will keep you updated as we learn […]