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March 22, 2010

 

2010-R-0169

TOWN OF RESIDENCE OF INCARCERATED INMATES

By: Christopher Reinhart, Senior Attorney

You asked for the town of residence of inmates currently incarcerated.

According to the Department of Correction (DOC), there were 18,303 inmates incarcerated on March 10, 2010. Inmates report a town of residence at their time of admission. Table 1 displays the 169 Connecticut towns and how many inmates reported each as their residence at the time of their admission to prison. The five towns with the largest number of incarcerated inmates are Hartford (2,631), New Haven (2,051), Bridgeport (1,860), Waterbury (1,524), and New Britain (809). The towns with the smallest number are Bridgewater and Sherman (0 each) and East Granby, Lyme, Morris, Redding, Union, and Warren (one each). In addition, 790 inmates reported an out-of-state address and DOC reported 181 inmates with an unknown or unrecorded address.

Table 1: Incarcerated Population, March 10, 2010, Town of Residence Reported on Admission

Town

Number of Inmates

Andover

5

Ansonia

104

Ashford

4

Avon

12

Barkhamsted

3

Beacon Falls

5

Table 1: -Continued-

Town

Number of Inmates

Berlin (including Kensington)

21

Bethany

7

Bethel

26

Bethlehem

11

Bloomfield

117

Bolton

6

Bozrah

4

Branford (including Stony Creek)

62

Bridgeport

1,860

Bridgewater

0

Bristol (including Forestville)

324

Brookfield

16

Brooklyn

23

Burlington

4

Canaan (including Falls Village)

7

Canterbury

19

Canton (including Canton Center, Collinsville, and North Canton)

11

Chaplin

9

Cheshire

22

Chester

5

Clinton

33

Colchester

30

Colebrook

2

Columbia

7

Cornwall (including West Cornwall)

4

Coventry

22

Cromwell

26

Danbury

368

Darien

5

Deep River

16

Derby

58

Durham

8

East Granby

1

East Haddam (including Moodus)

17

East Hampton

28

East Hartford

311

East Haven

92

East Lyme (including Niantic)

31

East Windsor (including Broad Brook)

31

Table 1: -Continued-

Town

Number of Inmates

Eastford

2

Easton

10

Ellington

22

Enfield

107

Essex (including Ivoryton)

7

Fairfield (including Southport)

53

Farmington (including Unionville)

28

Franklin (including North Franklin)

2

Glastonbury

24

Goshen

2

Granby

2

Greenwich (including Cos Cob and Riverside)

37

Griswold

10

Groton (including Groton City and Noank)

105*

Guilford

23

Haddam (including Higganum)

11

Hamden

205

Hampton

6

Hartford

2,631

Hartland (including East Hartland)

3

Harwinton

13

Hebron (including Amston)

10

Kent

4

Killingly (including Ballouville, Danielson, Dayville, East Killingly, and Rogers)

89

Killingworth

8

Lebanon

19

Ledyard (including Gales Ferry)

40

Lisbon (including Jewett City)

33

Litchfield (including Bantam and Northfield)

15

Lyme

1

Madison

16

Manchester

248

Mansfield (including Mansfield Center and Storrs)

25

Marlborough

6

Table 1: -Continued-

Town

Number of Inmates

Meriden

445

Middlebury

8

Middlefield (including Rockfall)

9

Middletown

268

Milford (including Devon)

96

Monroe

16

Montville (including Oakdale and Uncasville)

63

Morris

1

Naugatuck

116

New Britain

809

New Canaan

6

New Fairfield

15

New Hartford

9

New Haven (including Fair Haven)

2,051

New London

289

New Milford

61

Newington

48

Newtown (including Botsford and Sandy Hook)

23

Norfolk

3

North Branford (including Northford)

27

North Canaan

4

North Haven

31

North Stonington

7

Norwalk

389

Norwich (including Taftville and Yantic)

327

Old Lyme

17

Old Saybrook

19

Orange

11

Oxford

17

Plainfield (including Central Village, Moosup, and Wauregan)

76

Plainville

59

Plymouth (including Terryville)

39

Pomfret

5

Portland

20

Preston

11

Prospect

9

Putnam

56

Redding

1

Ridgefield

8

Table 1: -Continued-

Town

Number of Inmates

Rocky Hill

18

Roxbury

2

Salem

6

Salisbury (including Lakeville)

6

Scotland

3

Seymour

48

Sharon

6

Shelton

73

Sherman

0

Simsbury (including West Simsbury)

11

Somers

5

South Windsor

23

Southbury

17

Southington (including Marion and Plantsville)

96

Sprague (including Baltic and Hanover)

13

Stafford (including Stafford Springs and Staffordville)

53

Stamford (including Glenbrook)

534

Sterling (including Oneco)

14

Stonington (including Pawcatuck)

23*

Stratford

188

Suffield (including West Suffield)

10

Thomaston

9

Thompson (including Grosvenordale and North Grosvenordale)

25

Tolland

27

Torrington

172

Trumbull

24

Union

1

Vernon (including Rockville)

138

Voluntown

12

Wallingford (including Yalesville)

103

Warren

1

Washington (including New Preston)

5

Table 1: -Continued-

Town

Number of Inmates

Waterbury

1,524

Waterford (including Quaker Hill)

49

Watertown (including Oakville)

60

West Hartford (including Elmwood)

86

West Haven

304

Westbrook

13

Weston

2

Westport

9

Wethersfield

51

Willington

9

Wilton

4

Winchester (including Winsted)

46

Windham (including North Windham, South Windham, and Willimantic)

235

Windsor

93

Windsor Locks

33

Wolcott

43

Woodbridge

4

Woodbury

11

Woodstock (including Woodstock Valley)

9

Unknown or not recorded

181

Out-of-state

790

TOTAL

18,303

*DOC reported 18 inmates from Mystic and it is not clear whether they should be counted as Groton or Stonington residents.

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