INCIDENT ON UNIT 6B INVOLVING WHITE EMPLOYEES IS NOT BEING INVESTIGATED

The New Year 2014 arrived with people all over the world celebrating it as sacred. However in the year 2013 certain things continued to happen at Connecticut Juvenile Training School that defies reason. On December 27, 2013 the Unit 6B had a incident involving two residents fighting. At CJTS residents fighting is a normal happening, but YSOs are suppose to monitor activities to prevent such things. Well, the story is told by sources within CJTS that between 9:20pm -9:30pm two residents fought in a bathroom and were not detected by staff. When the altercation become known it seemed strange there was no uproar from management about this incident. Juxtapose this incident with another involving  three YSOs on October 6, 2012. These three YSOs were placed on paid administrative leave in November, after two residents fought in a Multi -Purpose Room ... Unit 4D. Two YSOs in this case were fired and one brought back to work.

I bring this 2012 incident up because DCF / CJTS spared no expense to trumpet their investigation of the 4D incident. However in the incident on 6B a male / female YSO are still working; no lengthy investigation or placing them on paid administrative leave took place. I wonder why? Well, both YSOs involved in the 6B fracas are white, this might be one reason no disciplinary actions took place.The two YSOs from that 4D incident are black and Puerto Rican. Oh, by the way, the YSO that came back to work from that 4D incident is white. It has been widely documented that DCF / CJTS discipline blacks, Latinos and other people of color with more severity than others. Graphs and charts posted on this blog are incontrovertible proof of the bias against employees of color [ data gained through Freedom of Information from DCF ] over several years. These two 6B YSOs are guilty of the same infraction DCF /CJTS vilified those YSOs from 4D about. Yet the punishment for two 6B white YSOs seems more lenient. One black 4D YSO in particular proved to be a thorn in the side of white management at CJTS; going on hunger strikes, holding a rally outside DCF / CJTS, holding a public hearing at the Legislative Office Building about racism in state agencies. And it is reasonable to suspect DCF management used the 4D incident to rid themselves of a black man who dared speak up against injustice.

I do not want to digress from the main point though, another incident happened [ 6B ] where residents were not supervised. CJTS management did not use heavy handed discipline on white YSOs like they have a history of doing to employees of color.We must look for logical reasons as to why management failed to investigate with vigor two newly hired YSOs. This brings to mind another salient point, two YSOs hired within 60-90 days working on Unit 6B without another veteran staff available...If such a thing did happen, is not management held responsible for Neglect of Duty? Hell, those YSOs from 4D were charged with Neglect of Duty. Yet management at CJTS are not called to task for their Neglect of Duty; nor are leaders at CJTS placing 6B YSOs on a hot seat, for failure to do their job the night of Dec. 27, 2013.

Seems as if 2014 will be a carbon copy of 2103 with a white management at CJTS still using a disciplinary boot to kick YSOs of color in their arse.