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FCI Danbury was opened in August 1940 with the purpose of housing male and female inmates. [1] It housed several high-profile prisoners during World War II. Conscientious objectors, including poet Robert Lowell and civil rights activist James Peck, were housed there for refusing to enter the military draft in the early 1940s.
Charles Phelps (1852–1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Connecticut attorney general from 1899 to 1903. He also served as Connecticut secretary of state (1897–99), a member of the Connecticut State Senate representing the 23rd district (1893–97) and the Connecticut House of Representatives (1885–1893), and coroner (1883–99) and district attorney for ...
The XL Center (originally known as the Hartford Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Owned by the City of Hartford, it is managed by the quasi-public Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) under a lease with the city and operated by Spectra .
Chrysalis House, a Lexington treatment center for women, most of whom are mothers, has more success than most, with about a 40 percent dropout rate, administrators said, but among those who complete the program, roughly half will relapse within a year. Many, if not all, had previous treatment stays.
McCall's company, Strategic Leisure, first proposed a $50 million publicly funded six-story parking garage at the Toby's Dinner Theatre location; later proposals included a 39-acre arts park with features such as an outdoor amphitheater called the Chrysalis, a 300-foot-long floating picnic table, and an 800-foot-long tube called the Caterpillar ...
Chrysalis is located in the entrance of the Marion Chester Read Center. Marion Chester Read pays tribute to the legacy of the Chester Read family, and more specifically, Marion, who continues to inspire others by her support of the Girl Scouting and the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast. 1921, Alice Chester, a community activist and philanthropist, became the first president of the local ...
Travis Hunter is feeling grateful after winning the Heisman Trophy.. The Colorado wide receiver and cornerback won the prestigious award, given to the top player in college football every year, on ...
1225 Silver Street, Middletown, CT 06457 Juvenile prison in Connecticut, US The Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS) was a juvenile prison in Middletown, Connecticut , that operated under the Connecticut Department of Children and Families from 2001 to 2018.