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Girl's Grave Stark Symbol of Failed Juvenile Reforms Hartford Courant October 13, 2015 OP ED Martha Stone It was a warm spring day 17 years ago when I went with two young women to search for Tabatha Brendle's grave. Tabatha had been incarcerated with them at Long Lane School, where she took her own life at 15.Govs. Jodi M. Rell and Dannel P. Malloy and DCF Commissioner Joette Katz have all admitted that the training school is not the facility they would have built. Then what are we waiting for? And why keep open the Pueblo Unit for girls? Developed by DCF despite public outcry, it has been used for only 11 girls since opening in 2014, at a start-up cost of more than $2 million. We know . . . read OpEd<http://www.kidscounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/courant-oped-MS-10-13-15.pdf>