DOC changes policy next week on ICE

HARTFORD, Conn. – Starting on Monday, the Connecticut Correction Department will no longer honor detainer requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless it’s accompanied by a signed judicial warrant or the inmate has been convicted of a violent felony.

In a Nov. 17 letter, Correction Department Commissioner Scott Semple told Thomas Winkowski, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, it will not longer enforce ICE detainer requests for “administrative warrants solely on the basis of (a) a final order of deportation or removal, unless accompanied by a judicial warrant, or (b) past criminal conviction, unless the conviction is for a violent felony.”

Immigration rights advocates will celebrate the decision 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16 outside the federal courthouse in Hartford.

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