Toni Walker’s years-long crusade has paid off, with passage of a state law that will stop sending teens under 18 to adult prisons.
Anyone who’s been following the efforts of Walker, a New Haven state representative, New Haven State Sen. Toni Harp and others knows that Connecticut is one of just three states in the country that incarcerates 16- and 17-year-olds in adult prisons, with adult offenders. But not everyone knows that, according to Walker, the state Department of Corrections has estimated that only 3 percent of these young people are dangerous.
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