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CT: Training School Reversal

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

he most glaring hole in the juvenile detention system is the lack of facilities for girls. Long Lane has been closed for five years, and there has been little progress in helping female offenders under DCF care. Many are sent to York Correctional Institution for women in Niantic for lack of a more appropriate setting. Others are sent to states as far away as Utah and Iowa, where they are isolated from their families. This is a tacit admission that the state is giving up on girls at a critical time in their development. Girls can't wait years for the DCF to fulfill plans for a new facility. Training School Reversal February 15, 2008 Hartford Courant No doubt about it, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown is a prison. No school that we know of has high-security fencing, fortress-like windows and unwelcoming steel doors...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2008 (boomark / email).