TOUGH TIMES AT THE PLANTATION ; VISITS; LAYOFFS; DECREASED POPULATION

The Connecticut Juvenile Training School has indeed fallen on tough times due to incompetence and mismanagement by supervisors.  At one point there were over 150 residents at CJTS, Youth Service Officers worked overtime and took home outrageous paychecks. Alas, those halcyon days are but a distant memory. These days the DCF Plantation is but a mere shadow of what it once appeared to be ; under leadership of an ostrich [ ducking head in the ground to ignore troubles ]  like superintendent and dysfunctional supervisors CJTS hit rock bottom. It has been reported that last Saturday CJTS allowed outsiders to come for visits of residents but failed to provided staff to sit and monitor the visiting area. In light of the fact people try sneaking in contraband [ remember how someone tried sneaking in a loaded 380. automatic gun? ] this seemed odd. There are sources indicating that KeyStone Cops management had people in an enclosed control booth watching visitors. However monitoring from a booth is far different than YSOs inside the visiting area, rumor has it the idea is to cut down on overtime by not having anyone monitoring inside the visiting room 11am-3pm.

The DCF Commissioner sent out an email last week about laying off employees at CJTS  due to a reduction in residents at that facility. Now that facility is only going to house 40 residents. I wonder if some of those over paid supervisors that do not work will be on the laid off list. For years management milked the State of Connecticut for large salaries while running CJTS into the ground. In all fairness the first heads to roll should be management layoffs.

The Units where residents live are usually staffed with enough people to handle situations and effectively monitor residents. Now it is reported KeyStone Cops management is running these Units with only TWO staff while having ONE staff  float between both Units. All of this is being done o save money on overtime.
 Ah, how the mighty hath fallen from their lofty perch. It must be noted how mismanagement for years at CJTS caused this current dilemma to manifest itself ; years of not addressing racial injustice among employees, allowing overtime to be doled out to management favorite employees, sexual peccadilloes between male managers and a certain $80,000 per year female supervisor, right wing persecution by the so called whistle blower about wrong doing at CJTS, not to mention YSOs not speaking up about troubles at the plantation -led to this current situation.  For sometime this blog reported on CJTS and how the joint was a cesspool of racial injustice, nepotism, overpaid and under educated supervisors, but very few people listened to our clarion voice shouting from the mountain top. Then the Child Advocate investigated allegations of improper resident restraints, also lawmakers visited the facility plus held hearings about it. Now after all of this activity people started asking tough questions about what the hell was and still is going on at the CJTS Plantation.

And as one reporter use to say "now you have the rest of the story."