SUPERVISORS ON PLANTATION PAID LARGE SALARIES BUT NEGLECT DUTIES

The year 2016 should be time for fresh starts in the lives of people, new diets, self awareness, striving to become better people. You would think that after Connecticut Juvenile Training School was pilloried by the Child Advocate in 2015 for dysfunctional management, and legislative hearings about closing the facility down, maybe things might change on the plantation. However in 2016 there are reports of how CJTS supervisors are making in excess of $80,000- $100,000 dollars while neglecting duties related to male incarcerated residents. Let me be clear. it has been reported by reliable sources how resident's safety is being overlooked. When residents act out behaviorally and are not compliant with Youth Service officers directives, hands on restraints generally occur. Then it at some point decided to have the non- compliant resident isolated in his room or the padded cell. If this does happen, then periodic checks on that secluded resident should take place at regular intervals-but sources report it does not. Supervisors on the CJTS plantation are paid large salaries but neglect their duties.

Sources report how these well paid supervisors work hard to get overtime pay but are not checking on secluded residents. Instead many of these supervisors are busy walking around the facility or getting ready to visit bars on the weekend. Then these same supervisors pass on paper work to other management types to sign as having verified the resident is okay. Say What !! Yes you read it here first, top supervisors will ask other management types to sign papers that residents are cognitively and physically fine, even though these other supervisors might have been off work during the incident. How on God's green earth can top management officials fix their mouths to ask someone else to (1) falsify signing a document ,  and (2) not check on the mental or physical state of residents involved in traumatic restraint events ? The CJTS and Department of Children and Families hierarchy just don't seem to get it. There are several sets of eyes watching the CJTS / DCF monolith, waiting for the slightest infraction to occur. Now there are rumors about more tom-foolery from dysfunctional Key Stone Cops management.

And we thought the year 2016 would be about change on the plantation.