Connecticut 2013 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05081 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/08/2013

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5081
January Session, 2013  LCO No. 353
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. CARPINO, 32nd Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5081 

January Session, 2013

LCO No. 353

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY 

Introduced by:

REP. CARPINO, 32nd Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF INMATES CONVICTED OF MURDER WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 18-10b of the general statutes be amended to require that persons convicted of the class A felony of murder with special circumstances committed on or after April 25, 2012, under the provisions of section 53a-54b of the general statutes in effect on or after April 25, 2012, and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, be segregated from the general inmate population for the duration of such life imprisonment, and to require that such persons have similar living conditions as those inmates who are in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for a capital felony committed prior to April 25, 2012, under the provisions of section 53a-54b of the general statutes in effect prior to April 25, 2012, for which a sentence of death was imposed in accordance with section 53a-46a of the general statutes. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To require that persons convicted of the class A felony of murder with special circumstances and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of release be segregated from the general inmate population and serve their sentences in similar living conditions as inmates on death row.