One of the punishments in which Judge E. Curtissa R. Cofield takes the most pride was when she sentenced some four dozen college students to write essays on underage drinking.
The students, mostly from the University of Hartford, showed up to her courtroom at the Community Court Session in Hartford last fall after being caught consuming alcohol as minors. Cofield ordered them to read books, including Smashed, Koren Zailckas’s 2005 memoir of her years as a teenage alcoholic.
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