The Connecticut Juvenile Training School ran into significant trouble in 2015 because of reports by the Child's Advocate of Youth Service Officers using harsh restraint techniques on residents. In addition the Child's Advocate Office also released a scathing report about CJTS management that were not running the facility well. Then CT lawmakers jumped on the bandwagon with investigations and public hearings about CJTS, plus many legislators actually toured the facility. During all of this turmoil the white management et al. picked YSO Dupree to portray as the face of harsh restraints of residents. Let me add Dupree is young, black, muscular and chosen as villain by media and others in order to escape the universal condemnation that rained down on the heads of white management about things gone wrong at the CJTS Plantation. Media coverage about Dupree was relentless and unforgiving ; white management took cover behind the muscular back of Dupree and in the time honored American tradition echoed those words "blame it on the black man." Dupree was placed on the Department of Children and Families Central Registry which basically claims anyone on that list is a danger to work with youth. However now after an investigation it appears as if Dupree was taken off the Central registry, but his fight for justice continues.
Now Dupree is in hearings before Office of Labor Relations to ascertain whether any punishment is necessary for his alleged harsh resident restraint of a resident. It is safe to surmise Dupree has already suffered untold agonies from (1.) losing his job, (2.) standing before the glaring media spotlight, (3.) being used by white management to cover up their own incompetence about running CJTS and Pubelo Girls Unit.
In the Arc of the Moral Universe it is possible Dupree is beginning to be free, but that freedom comes at a high price. Let me also remind readers that what is happening to Dupree is just the latest saga in America of ill treatment of black males in all spheres of life.
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