Amonda Hannah is the 9th warden of the Level 4 High Security facility, and the second woman to hold the position. She was the warden at Bridgeport Correctional Center. Hannah started with the Corrections Department in 1994 as an inmate counselor at Garner. She served there as deputy warden under former Garner warden Scott Semple, who then became Governor Malloy’s DOC Commissioner.
Capstone Project: A “Way Out” Juvenile Mentoring Program: Connecticut leads the way in criminal justice reform initiatives with astonishing results that have the data and statistics to prove it. Lowest crime rates in 50 years, the lowest level of incarceration in 24 years, and recidivism rates are also decreasing. Yet, there is a stark racial and ethnic disparity within Connecticut’s prison population. The number of incarcerated Black and Hispanic males in Connecticut is twice that than of their White counterparts. The impact of the disparate incarceration also reaches the children and families of those incarcerated. Parental incarceration is especially prevalent for Blacks and Hispanics, racial groups that are often otherwise disadvantaged in the criminal justice system. Nationally, Black children are seven times more likely, and Hispanic children are two and half times more likely than White children to have an incarcerated parent.