The narrative coming out of Connecticut Juvenile Training School this week is about a fight between three residents. As the story is told two residents were outside near the clock tower and decided to beat down a resident from Unit 5B. Now fights between residents are not unusual at CJTS but this one resulted in severe injuries to the resident beaten by two peers. Now during the beat down assistance was called for to breakup the altercation, but the fight continued. There were no staff to respond due to several factors (1.) due to state layoffs of workers staff levels at CJTS are at an all time low, (2.) then the staff that are at the facility have worked double and triple shifts... ergo, cannot respond quickly.
Now the beat down continued at the clock tower for several minutes; no response from staff. When a group of female staff came on the scene they could not separate the combatants. Finally by some miracle the fight ended, but not before severely injuring one resident. This writer learned that the one resident beaten by two peers is in the hospital. When Youth Service Officers do not perform their jobs management investigate them. The dreaded mandated report called #136 is filed against YSOs who are deemed negligent when dealing with residents. With the depletion of YSOs on the CJTS Plantation an unsafe condition exists, why no #136 filed against management for a shortage of staff ? If that youth in the hospital dies who is responsible for not having appropriate levels of staff at CJTS to handle client safety?
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