WHY ATTACKS ON THE TWO MEN?

The drama at Connecticut Juvenile Training School continues in high gear. For whatever reason it seems as if unity among workers is decreasing. Just a while ago Youth Service Officers were signing petitions and forcing Joette Katz Commissioner of Department of Children and Families to meet with them. The glow of that meeting is over obviously; we now have attacks by employees on one another like the Hatfields & McCoys epic battles. Sources report how one YSO is being accused of challenging directives given by a superior. Kevin Strachen [ the source claims ] is being singled out for punishment and his peers cannot figure out why. We must consider that Strachen is a member of the hostile work environment lawsuit launched four years ago with four other people [ DCF Plantation 5 ]. Since the lawsuit was filed management has tried all manner of trickery to discipline Strachen. He has been investigated every time he had to physically restrain a resident at CJTS. Now there are rumors that management is once again filing complaints in various forms against Strachen.

The next incident concerns Ray Monteiro a dedicated YSO at CJTS. For years white management has been quietly trying to erode Ray's influence with incarcerated youth. Ray started a program called icy dreams which is designed to let residents sell flavored snow cones under supervision of employees. This business endeavor teaches youth how to manage money and interact with customers. Icy dreams was targeted by management to be shut down several times. Ray's son Barray has been and still is being targeted by management for minor infractions [ this is in order to get to Ray ]. Now all of a sudden white management is using YSOs to go after Ray. It is reported that a fellow employee recently walked up to Ray and voiced disapproval about certain things. Well why in the world is a fellow employee doing this? The same person that confronted Ray is usually  "quiet as a church mouse" people claim. Now he is confronting Ray for no good reason? Hold on readers, there are reasons this is happening now to Ray. We need look no further than white management using YSOs as attack dogs. By doing it in this manner management can claim to have clean hands. Yeah right.