The story you are about to read is a follow up to a previous one about an employee feeling unsafe on Unit 6 Delta. Sources contacted this blog about a situation they feel is unfair, biased and racist. Again let me be clear that the facts are coming from Youth Service Officers working at Connecticut Juvenile Training School and not confirmed by management [ they refuse to speak with staff writers from this blog ]. It is reported that an openly gay white male YSO did not feel safe on Unit 6 D, and to make the point sent e-mail to the Assistant Superintendent at CJTS stating such a fact. Then management in their wisdom transferred the gay YSO to Unit 4 Delta where even a change of scenery did not remove the fear.
If you are a YSO at CJTS, working with difficult and assaultive residents is part of the job, this is told to possible employees up front. Yet this writer wonders why management is going out of their way to protect a YSO who claims to " feel unsafe around residents and staff " and " coming to work daily increases that fear." For the record there are openly gay YSOs working at CJTS that do not receive special treatment; a black male, black female, and Latina female have worked at CJTS for close to a decade and endured taunts etc from residents but received no solace from white administrators. The openly gay white male is moved to 4 Delta and given protection when he appears for work. Sources indicate that management moved experienced YSOs to Unit 4D to make this white YSO feel safe. Say what?? If we look even more closely at this biased behavior it seems strange how black males [ the big black shiny chest buck syndrome ] are taken from various Units to work on 4 D when the white gay YSO is on the property. Why did management take experienced black YSOs from Units 5C and 5D to work with a white male in order to make that person feel safe ? Hell, the gay YSOs of color never were given such honors. In fact a Latina gay female was constantly berated by residents a few years ago and no person in authority offered any help. The poor woman had to take time off work to refocus her damaged psyche.
Well for the record if you are white and gay [ at CJTS ] you are protected, but black or Latino and gay is rejected. The insults to employees of color continue to mount with no end in sight. When will some higher official look into what is going on at this CJTS plantation and correct the problems? Evidently current leadership at CJTS is not doing their job while collecting hefty salaries. In the final analysis there is a definite distinction made between white or employees of color at this plantation : even Stevie Wonder can see something is wrong.
" He who allows oppression shares the crime."
- Erasmus Darwin
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