Opinion: Justice has her day in court

Christine Palm is communications director of the General Assembly’s non-partisan Commission on Women, Children and Seniors.

In a year in which our justice system has seemed increasingly fractured, dysfunctional and often prejudiced, something remarkable happened Wednesday in Niantic: mercy won out over retribution. There, in the J.B. Gates Correctional Institution, a young woman incarcerated for nine years at nearby York prison, was granted clemency after serving half her 18-year sentence for a crime she committed when she was 17.

Down meandering, wooded North Bride Brook Road, in a room with an optimistic mural of the State Capitol painted on its cinder block walls, nearly 200 members of Connecticut’s Cambodian community waited with a handful of reporters and a rag-tag bunch of social justice advocates there to support Panna Krom, the 26-year-old woman convicted of killing her newborn when she was a teenager.

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