http://ctmirror.org/op-ed-for-joshs-sake-and-janes-can-dcf-listen-to-others/

For Josh’s sake and Jane’s, can DCF listen to others?

Josh . .  is .  . a 17-year-old kid who has suffered abuse and many other unimaginable traumas in his young life. For the past four months, the state of Connecticut – that is you and I – kept Josh at Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS). Not for any new arrest, but because he disobeyed a staff member at his group home and went down the street to smoke a joint.

Jane Doe?  . . she has been moved five times this year  -- from detention to a treatment facility to CJTS to York Correctional Institution (an adult prison) to the Pueblo Unit back to CJTS.

Office of Child Advocate: 11 fatalities of children in contact with DCF in the first five months of 2014