U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has questioned the new Attorney General about when construction will begin at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.  Loretta Lynch told Murphy, and the Senate panel which oversees the Bureau of Prisons questioning her yesterday, that work is slated to begin this summer. 

The construction was prompted by a decision to turn the female lock up back into male quarters.  Murphy and Senator Blumenthal fought to have a satellite camp for female inmates built in Danbury because it's the last women's prison in the region. 

The original construction estimated a completion by this month, but an environmental impact statement was needed, holding up the start of the job.