SCHOOL SAFETY AND CUTTING BACK ON OVERTIME

The Connecticut Juvenile Training School has recently discontinued In School Suspension for residents during academic time. ISS was used to help students study more, deal with acting out behaviors during class, or for other offenses. During ISS Youth Service Officers were present to help the teacher maintain order and redirect residents if needed. That meant staff usually worked overtime shifts in order to keep enough YSOs monitoring hallways and classrooms. However KeyStone Cops management discontinued ISS to save the overtime dollars. Now let me continue with the story.

When a resident at CJTS acts out in school, that person now is escorted to their Unit by one staff, and that staff stays with the resident. This means there are not enough YSOs in the school to handle disturbances that occur daily. Now let us say three to four residents from different Units fight in class. Now four YSOs must accompany residents back to their Units. So as you can see this is an issue of safety ...for teachers and staff. If the management at CJTS wanted to save money how come that Unit Leader -that management is always protecting- in building #6 has not moved to bldg. # 5 like all other Units? Because of not adhering to the program and moving that Unit, money is being lost that could be used for keeping ISS open. Well dysfunctional management has done it again. Closing down ISS and increasing safety hazards while the Unit Leader in bldg. # 6 continues to stay put and buck dance like Bill Bogangles Robinson for white management.

WORKER COMPENSATION QUEEN AT IT AGAIN / NOT MOVING INTO BUILDING # 5 AND THE GOOD NEGRO

The administration at Connecticut Juvenile Training School is universally considered to be dysfunctional at best incompetent and blind at worst. In the past several years numerous mistakes or lapses in judgment have been recorded by this blog that CJTS made. For example allowing a right wing male employee to be the attack dog for management and keep employees of color in line. Oh let us not forget how management did not know or looked the other way while a female Caucasian supervisor was arrested several times for drinking under the influence of alcohol, then stripped of a driving license-but still she came to work for almost one year [ no drivers license ]. Now administrators are continuing to enable a white supervisor to -once again- be out of the facility on Workers Compensation. At CJTS where on hands restraints are common, it is possible to become injured and therefore need time off. However this female supervisor- a Unit Leader- takes advantage of the Workers Comp situation : in five years or more this Unit Leader at CJTS has not worked more than 60 complete days. Other employees must report to work or be disciplined by management, not the Workers Comp queen though, she is like Casper the Ghost... showing up for one week, then claiming injury just from walking through the CJTS front gate and doors. Say what ?

This blog documented several instances where the female Unit Leader seemed to be milking the State of Connecticut dry , gaining filthy lucre through deception or out right lies. Yet at the CJTS Plantation it is business as usual; hen house unguarded, foxes running off with chicken eggs.. while management is sleep at the wheel of the facility.

Hey it was reported that during negotiations about CJTS layoffs and closing the facility, cutting costs might help ease the burden of operating the facility. It was decided that every Unit at CJTS would move into building # 5. But hold your horses folks. Directives from KeyStone Cops management in June 2016 made it clear ALL Unit Leaders were to move residents etc into building #5. At this juncture there is one Unit Leader in bldg. 6 moving slower than molasses in obeying directives to move, hell all the other Units moved into bldg. #5. There is speculation why Unit in bldg. 6 has not moved, it is due to receiving special favor from ol' Massa in the front office. Let me be clear. White administrators within the DCF apartheid complex are quick to embrace, support or promote Negroes who "know their place" and buck dance to ol' Massa's tune. Also it is possible the numerous trips this Unit Leader makes to see administrators is not only about discussing Unit issues but tattling on employees. In other places it is called dry snitching... dropping dimes... being a rat fink etc. Now it is also reported how moving into bldg. # 5 with other Unit Leaders could expose all of the "dirt" or irregularities committed within the Unit constantly. Very few people working at CJTS know for certain what occurs in Unit  bldg. # 6, and moving to bldg. #5 just might turn on lights that will cause cockroaches to scurry.

DUPREE WAS FIRED QUICK, BUT DCF SLOW IN HIRING HIM BACK

This is a story that has appeared on the DCF Plantation Blog several times. Resean Dupree is a 33 year old black man that is still waiting for justice within Department of Children & Families ... Connecticut Juvenile Training School. Dupree was a Youth Service Officer at CJTS without any blemish on his record for years. To be honest in ten years of working for various state agencies Dupree's record is spotless. However while working at CJTS Dupree, in order to quell a fight between several youth.. placed them in an unauthorized hold or restraint. Dupree is an avid weight lifter built like a Greek god, he certainly was not trying to hurt the youth he restrained at CJTS. However in April of 2015 Dupree was placed on paid administrative leave for placing the youth in a so- called unapproved hold. We need to understand that what happened to Dupree came after The Childs Advocate office conducted a lengthy investigation about resident abuse through unauthorized restraints by YSOs. The resulting circus from this investigation included tours by legislators in Hartford, news stories, and white administrators looking for scapegoats. Well white folks found and targeted Dupree as their victim-"the usual suspect.. blame it on the huge black male." Dupree received notice on September 2, 2015 of being terminated from CJTS.

Now if we fast forward there seems to be a happy ending to this sordid tale of targeting another black male for harsh disciplinary action within the DCF Plantation. Dupree through an arbitrator's decision was reinstated to his job, with full back pay etc. Hold on. Why is Dupree still not back at the job ? He received the fair arbitration hearing decision Sept. 1, 2016, yet white administrators are slow in placing the black man back on his job. Dupree has been vindicated in some respects but feels betrayed. When administrators needed some sort of sacrifice to appease the Child Advocate and howling mob Dupree became expendable. Throughout the history of America black men and women were used to justify racist practices. In the past lynchings or other means were used to keep black people in line. In 2016 the white power structure uses policy and procedure in workplace settings to justify racial excesses against people like Dupree. DCF / CJTS fired Dupree before the world in hideous fashion, making him the poster child of beast like restraint at CJTS. Now these same people have the unmitigated gall to move slowly in giving the brother his job back.
Please forgive me readers, this is just to much to take.

Please call CJTS Superintendent William Rosenbeck at (860) 638-2420 and ask for Resean Dupree to be reinstated immediately.