Did you know that Connecticut’s total prison population is at its lowest level in four years? As of January 1, 2011, there were 17,746 prisoners in Connecticut prisons. Prisoners serving a sentence accounted for 13,578 inmates; the rest - 4,168 inmates, were prisoners awaiting a sentence. The prison population has dropped steadily in the past four years from a high of 19,894 on February 1, 2008.
All of this information and more, along with helpful charts and tables, can be found in the OLR’s Report, Connecticut Prison Population Over the Last Four Years.
