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Activist gather at department of corrections in Wethersfield to protest 2018 death of an inmate

By Juliana Lepore,

10 hours ago

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Activists gathered on Friday outside of the Wethersfield Department of Corrections Office (DOC) in efforts to make a video of treatment to an inmate at the facility public.

Lawyers for the estate of J’Allen Jones are pushing to make the video of him being restrained at the prison public. He died after the was allegedly restrained there in 2018.

Protesters are accusing the state and the DOC of covering up that incident.

“It’s been oblivious to us because no one was held accountable — there was no big news about it, and the only reason we’re finding out now is because the family has been fighting for years to get the video recording of what happened,” a protester said.

The DOC is not commenting on the video or the protests.

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Bob Green

5h ago

They are activists, they are people who have relatives or family who regularly go to prison, which is sad,how about teach your loved ones to adult

Frank

7h ago

Who would support the criminals any more than the Democrats already have??

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