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- ↑ Keating, Christopher. "Connecticut lawmakers advance bill that would legalize marijuana, erase criminal records for low-level drug offenders". courant.com. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
- ↑ @MattLesser (May 5, 2021). "A bill to end Prison Gerrymandering has just passed the CT Senate 35-1. It's the practice where prisoners are cou…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
