The Connecticut Child Advocate released a report not long ago about documented harsh restraints at Connecticut Juvenile Training School / Pueblo Girls Unit. It is claimed Youth Service Officers are restraining incarcerated residents when it is not necessary, ergo causing additional trauma for youth in these facilities. Now there are a series of hearings being conducted by state lawmakers to ascertain whether YSOs are to blame for ill treatment of defenseless youth; visits by State Representatives et al. inside CJTS are continuing and have increased. The narrative put out by administrators of the DCF Plantation is "we try to fire employees that abuse youth at our facilities. When we take measures to protect incarcerated youth the Unions interfere, getting people reinstated through arbitration."
It is clear that the narrative is focusing on out of control YSOs harming innocent youth. Yet YSOs have not spoken about how incompetent CJTS administration is in governing at two facilities mentioned above. Because the CJTS leadership cannot control individual Unit Leaders, there are different restraint protocols in each building. There is no uniform policy implemented on Units. Each Unit Leader acts as some sort of feudal Chinese War Lord, dictating policy as they see fit. YSOs have been silent about Key Stone Cops management techniques for years on the DCF Plantation; they are willing to suffer silently in order to get extra overtime shifts. Because of not speaking up YSOs allowed this present situation to deteriorate until now management has turned the entire narrative around ; YSOs are to blame.
Silence in times of crisis or injustice allow the situation to become more toxic to those involved.
In the case of CJTS / Pueblo Girls Unit employees this silence might cost them employment.
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