State revamps its approach to jail time for juvenile offenders

By: JACQUELINE RABE THOMAS | December 23, 2014

Last year 227 boys who committed crimes were incarcerated in the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, the state's maximum-security facility in Middletown for juvenile offenders. They lived there for months before it was determined when they would be released. Their stay averaged 9 months.

This uncertainty came to an end in October.

http://www.kidscounsel.org/ct-revamps-jail-time-juveniles/