The Connecticut Juvenile Training School is winding down as an institution and will close soon. At this juncture outside forces have determined CJTS is an albatross hanging around the neck of Connecticut. Now the Governor of Connecticut Danel Malloy has decided to layoff 65 people as part of balancing of the state budget. After years of running CJTS into the ground administratively and blaming it on the Youth Service Officers, now layoffs come first to CJTS. To be sure, the budget cuts are coming and will touch all segments of CT services. However it is interesting to note ordinary YSOs receive the economic axe first.
KeyStone Cops administrators at CJTS are busy closing Units where residents are housed. After closing Units, administrators seem to be just tossing workers pell-mell together. It is reported since the closing of Units many YSOs are not working cohesively with each other. Yet another example of buffoonery from the KeyStone Cops administrators concerning this tossing workers together with no thought behind it.
Since the clarion call went out to close CJTS workers seemed stunned. There is much wailing and thrashing around about layoffs and loss of income for ordinary employees. Yet it is safe to say that if courageous YSOs would have spoken up about all the injustice around racism, overtime abuse and administrative dysfunctional acts..... things might be different.
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