THEY IGNORE VOICES OF THE OPPRESSED

At Connecticut Juvenile Training School administrators are paid salaries to be informed about what takes place on CJTS property. However, when it comes to employees of color asking for justice from bias etc. then this is not considered. For a period of years people of color employeed at CJTS have made complaints, signed petitions,went on hunger strikes,protested outside CJTS and still management refuses to take these things seriously.What is curious to me is how a facility, with trained clinicians in it, cannot or will not acknowledge the pain of others. Surely the administrators at this DCF Plantation site are familiar with clinical teachings of sympathy and empathy for other people. Yet, any chance CJTS officials get to underscore or diminish the claims of the oppressed at their facility they do so. They ignore the voices of the oppressed at all costs.
In social work class 101 it is taught that people who ignore the pain of others do so for reasons; perhaps CJTS administrators do not want to open the complaint box, for fear of exposing a hideous side of that facility in which a culture of fear ins now normalized. Yes there is a culture at CJTS in which using policy & procedure to keep the natives(employees of color) in their places is standard operating procedure. When atrocities occur the employess hardly acknowledge what happened; like people in war zones CJTS employees are use to the legal violence taking place.However, the real crime is they (CJTS officials) ignore voices of the oppressed.

written by--Ali Baba