BLACK FEMALE TRAINEE TERMINATED FOR VERBAL FAUX PAS

Maybe someone can read this then explain what is going on at Connecticut Juvenile Training School. Several e-mails to dcfplantation@gmail.com report a travesty of justice might have occurred at CJTS as it relates to a black female trainee and her verbal faux pas [ social blunder ] during working hours. The story behind this is a black female was in training and on probation when a situation with male residents occurred on her Unit. The female trainee videotaped the incident [ as part of CJTS policy ] with male residents and then made some comment about the antics of the residents involved. This staff writer spoke with YSOs who said “ either the lady said those kids are crazy or retarded” and those words were captured on the video. In all fairness to CJTS the trainee’s exact words are not known to this blog and management surely will not share that information with this staff writer. When the last week of May drew near it is reported the black female trainee was walked off the CJTS grounds for this verbal mistake that slipped out, was not malicious, and might be corrected with supervision during her probation period. All indications point to the fact she was fired.

But management decided to discipline the black female seemingly out of proportion to her comments [ if indeed reports are true that no profanity or malicious intent came across on the video audio ]. I bring up the incident because not long ago a white female employee at CJTS called residents porch monkeys more than once over a span of several weeks. She did not get walked off the property or removed from her Unit for uttering racially charged comments. Let us also be aware the white female YSO had been teaching in the school at that facility for more a year before changing to YSO. Given these facts it seems as if the white female YSO would know better to utter such derogatory terms at any facility filled with incarcerated youth of color. Why did management walk the black female trainee off the property, after firing her, for comments that most YSOs have referred to as not overly harmful but accidental?? Is it fair to allow a male YSO to work at CJTS after slapping a resident in 2009, but not giving a trainee another chance?
Have we as human beings not made verbal mistakes in the past?

It boggles the imagination that management makes these decisions affecting people’s lives that are so inconsistent with rational thinking. After writing so many articles about CJTS over the past two years one thing stands out clearly, employees of color seem to be treated differently. Amen to that.