Sec. 18-81t. Report of commissioner re inmate disciplinary reports, inmate assaults and custodial staff workers' compensation claims. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 18-81t. Report of commissioner re inmate disciplinary reports, inmate assaults and custodial staff workers' compensation claims. (a) Not later than thirty days after the close of the first calendar quarter of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, and not later than thirty days after the close of each calendar quarter of each fiscal year thereafter, the Commissioner of Correction shall submit, to the Governor and to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary and labor and public employees, a report containing the number of: (1) Inmate disciplinary reports filed during such calendar quarter; (2) inmate assaults on custodial staff reported during such calendar quarter; (3) inmate assaults on other inmates reported during such calendar quarter; and (4) workers' compensation claims filed by custodial staff during such calendar quarter. Said committees may hold a public hearing on any such report.

      (b) If, during any calendar quarter, the number of disciplinary reports, assaults or workers' compensation claims reported in accordance with subsection (a) of this section has increased by more than five per cent from the number of such disciplinary reports, assaults or workers' compensation claims reported for the preceding calendar quarter or for the same calendar quarter of the preceding fiscal year, the commissioner shall include in the report submitted in accordance with subsection (a) of this section an explanation for such increase and a general description of the measures to be taken by the Department of Correction to address such increase.

      (P.A. 04-146, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 04-146 effective May 21, 2004.