How befitting. I have been trying to get one of my clients out of detention for more than a month. Why isn't he out? Because the state wants to send him to "The Training School." I believe my client has some serious mental health issues and I have agreed to evaluation and testing. This is a kid who has 1 prior. The reason for the state's position, it is a serious juvenile offense. Perhaps if the state took a minute to read thru the police report, they might have a different perspective.
It is a shame what is happening to our juveniles.
Trudy Condio
Attorney Trudy Condio
P.O. Box 175
Manchester, CT 06045
860-646-1502
860-432-3713 Fax
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>Courant.com
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>OP-ED
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>Fund Alternatives Instead Of Locking Up More Kids
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>By ABBY ANDERSON | OP-EDThe Hartford Courant
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>6:44 p.m. EST, March 3, 2014
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>Connecticut's juvenile justice reforms have reduced crime and saved money. I regularly field inquiries from other states where people want to emulate our progress. One state seems bent on disregarding the lessons of Connecticut's success: Connecticut.
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>We are regressing to reliance on incarceration, the most expensive option in the juvenile justice system and the least likely to do a child any good. More boys are in the Connecticut Juvenile Training School than at any time in the past decade. The state is fast-tracking a facility to lock up more girls.
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>This represents an about-face. Delinquency cases in Connecticut dropped by about a third over the past decade. The state saved money in its juvenile justice system thanks to a falling crime rate and use of more rehabilitative, cheaper alternatives to incarceration.
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>Today, our juvenile incarceration rate is rising while less restrictive programs are closing. Programs closed partly because our juvenile justice system shrank. That's a good thing. The system is smaller because we've done better at diverting relatively minor cases from juvenile court to community programs.
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>There have been two major changes to the juvenile system's demographics.
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>We've taken many of the "easy" kids out of the system. Appropriately, a higher proportion of kids are in the juvenile justice system because their needs and risk level are both high and complex.
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>We've also added 16- and 17-year-olds to the system. Their recidivism rates are lower than younger teens; and delinquency commitments are not rising. But their needs are different and include vocational training, parenting support, independent living opportunities and skill development.
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>Although the demographics have changed, the system hasn't, at least not adequately. Services don't match the needs of the kids now in the juvenile justice system. As programs close because of low census, the breadth of services is narrowing, with some regions of the state particularly underserved.
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>So the Connecticut Juvenile Training School in Middletown is used for a larger percentage of the boys and for a broad array of reasons. The training school, designed for the highest-risk boys, is also being used for "respite care." Some boys are admitted so that their medications can be adjusted. Other boys, who feel unsafe in their communities after release, are placed back in the training school, which is surrounded by a security fence. Boys are locked in cells at night. Why would anyone send a child there for a medical problem or to get away from a gang? Answer: Because they couldn't find a better alternative.
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>The challenge is to provide a broad range of services that help kids avoid incarceration, even as the number of children using those services is dropping.
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>National experts from Georgetown University prepared an in-depth report examining the problems facing Connecticut's juvenile justice system and offered recommendations. A draft was delivered in June 2013. It is past time the Department of Children and Families publicly responded with a corrective action plan, including a timeline and cost estimate.
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>The report recommended that the state "develop a clear basic continuum of services for each region that includes a minimum service array available to all regions. All regions would benefit from increases in intermediate sanctions as an alternative to secure confinement and residential placement."
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>The report also decried the lack of available data and said the system "cannot advance significantly without objective data and performance outcomes." DCF does not track recidivism, which means it has no idea how (or if) its services work or what factors make a child appropriate for a given program. It is analogous to doctors writing prescriptions for untested medications.
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>In this information vacuum, we are choosing incarceration — instead of more rehabilitative programs and instead of investments in child welfare and children's mental health to keep them out of the juvenile justice system. We say that children's mental health is a priority, but the governor's DCF budget increases community children's mental health programs statewide by only $2 million. Compare that with $2.6 million to open a new maximum-security facility for girls.
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>Somehow, we always find the money to lock kids up.
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>Abby Anderson is executive director of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance.
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