RESIDENT ON UNIT 5B IS NOT GETTING THE TREATMENT REQUIRED. WHY ?

The glorious  sounding mission statement of Connecticut Juvenile Training School reads that helping incarcerated male residents is a primary concern. If CJTS is so concerned about helping adolescent and young males in their custody, why is a black male being overlooked ? Here is the gist of what this writer has learned about a tragedy in the making. It is reported a black male considered large for his size and given an Axis I diagnosis is being ignored. Reports indicate the male should be in a facility with more resources, like Riverview, but that facility is playing a game called avoiding the client. People from Riverview will come down to CJTS and assess this youth periodically, but will not accept him as a client. Ergo, he remains at CJTS on Unit 5B without proper care from clinicians at CJTS, while shunned at Riverview. While everyone is avoiding actually treating this resident he, of course, is acting out behaviorally... assaultive.. long periods of silence.

Riverview gets paid of course to assess  the CJTS resident. His stay on Unit 5B helps place money in CJTS coffers. When will someone ask the obvious question hanging over this resident's head like The Sword of Damocles ? Are both facilities afraid of a large black male resident with aggressive behaviors and Axis I diagnosis ? If the client were Caucasian would he receive better treatment and be transferred to Riverview ? In the past CJTS Plantation has been reported to help the other [white] but ignore the brother [black].