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CT DOC video shows man wheezing, begging for water before his death J’Allen Jones died in prison after more than a half-dozen corrections officers stripped him naked, placed a hood over his head, pepper-sprayed him and pinned him to a bed, according to a video that was released Friday after a lengthy court battle. Jones, a 31-year-old Black man, can be seen on the graphic video wheezing and begging for water before he became unresponsive and a team of nurses and corrections officers began performing CPR. Although the state medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, the state’s attorney declined to move forward with criminal charges. The medical examiner’s report cited the struggle involving pepper spray, restraint, chest compressions, asthma and blunt trauma in the cause of death. The video was released on orders from the Hartford Superior Court after years of advocacy and a lawsuit filed by Jones’ family in August 2018. The state, through Attorney General William Tong’s office, actively fought the release of the video in court, but the judge decided to unseal it after attorneys for the family, the ACLU and the Connecticut Examiner, a news organization, pushed for its release. J…

Judge orders video of man's death in CT prison be released Advocates gathered in front of Hartford Superior Court before a case on the potential public release of footage of the J’Allen Jones case on August 22, 2025. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror By Emilia Otte | eotte@ctmirror.org | CT Mirror PUBLISHED: October 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM EDT | UPDATED: October 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Correction to release the video showing the death of J’Allen Jones at Garner Correctional Institute in 2018. In her 11-page decision , Superior Court Judge Claudia Baio said that the Department of Correction had not sufficiently proved that the safety concerns that officials raised during a hearing in August were enough to override the public interest in the video’s release. Jones died in March 2018 after being pepper sprayed, restrained, struck and forcibly moved by as many as 10 corrections workers. In August 2018, Jones’ mother and girlfriend filed a lawsuit against the Department of Correction. The family has been petitioning the courts for the release of the video, along with the ACLU and the …

Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking ... A Connecticut judge has publicly released a video showing correctional officers striking an inmate multiple times and pepper spraying him before he died in 2018 HARTFORD, Conn. --Connecticut prison inmateJ’Allen Joneswas suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by a state judge in Hartford overseeing Jones’ family’s lawsuit against eight officers and a prison nurse, following a yearslong legal battle and after both sides agreed to certain redactions. The Department of Correction had sought to keep it sealed since 2019, saying in part that its release could present security problems because it shows the physical layout of the prison and staffing patterns. But Jones’ family, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and local NAACP officials called for publicly releasing the video, saying transparency was needed in Jones’ death. “The events in the video are as disturbing as the events in the vi…

Advocates want video of J’Allen Jones’ death in CT prison released This story has been updated. Hassan Foster met J’Allen Jones when they were both in Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown in 2015. He remembers Jones as calm and peaceful. He said he’d seen Jones struggle with a mental health episode, but his medication seemed to relieve the symptoms. He said he’d never seen Jones get angry or swear. They went to church together, he said, and talked about spirituality. They got to know one another. “I asked him why was he there. He said that he fell on hard times. He’s from Atlanta, Georgia, and got caught up in some stuff just to pay some bills. He said, ‘I just didn’t have any family up here,’” Foster told The Connecticut Mirror at a rally at the Capitol on Tuesday, where advocates were calling for the release of a video showing the last hours of Jones’ life. According to Foster, the two men continued to check in with one another until Foster was transferred to MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. It was there that he found out, in 2018, that Jones had died at Garner. “I broke down. It was so painful,” he said. “We were talking to each other every single d…

Connecticut inmate struck, striped naked before he died, shows video J'Allen Jones, a schizophrenic inmate at a Connecticut prison, suffered custodial torture and death in 2018, video footage now reveals

Connecticut inmate struck, striped naked before he died, shows video Connecticut prison inmate J'Allen Jones was suffering amental healthcrisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by a state judge in Hartford overseeing Jones’ family’s lawsuit against eight officers and a prison nurse, following a years long legal battle and after both sides agreed to certain redactions. The Department of Correction had sought to keep it sealed since 2019, saying in part that its release could present security problems because it shows the physical layout of the prison and staffing patterns. But Jones’ family, the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut and local NAACP officials called for publicly releasing the video, saying transparency was needed in Jones’ death. “The events in the video are as disturbing as the events in the video of George Floyd’s death,” Ron Murphy, a lawyer for Jones’ family, wrote in a court document, referring to the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. “But in some…

Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking inmate ... Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking inmate before he died HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut prison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Posted 6/27/2026, 12:38:09 AM Related Associated Press AP U.S. news This image made from video taken on March 25, 2018 and provided by Connecticut Department of Correction, shows prison inmate J’Allen Jones prior to his death after being subdued by correctional officers. (Connecticut Department of Correction via AP) By DAVE COLLINS — Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut prison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by a state judge in Hartford overseeing Jones’ family’s lawsuit against eight officers and …

Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers… - inkl Connecticutprison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by a state judge inHartfordoverseeing Jones’ family’s lawsuit against eight officers and a prison nurse, following a yearslong legal battle and after both sides agreed to certain redactions. The Department of Correction had sought to keep it sealed since 2019, saying in part that its release could present security problems because it shows the physical layout of the prison and staffing patterns. But Jones’ family, theAmerican Civil Liberties Unionof Connecticut and localNAACPofficials called for publicly releasing the video, saying transparency was needed in Jones’ death. “The events in the video are as disturbing as the events in the video of George Floyd’s death,” Ron Murphy, a lawyer for Jones’ family, wrote in a court document, referring to the man killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. “But in some ways, the v…