Child advocates decry idea of housing migrant children at former CT detention facility as step backward
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The former Connecticut Juvenile Training School, at 1225 River Road in Middletown, was shut down in 2018. The facility is shown April 8.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at a COVID-19 community vaccination clinic March 14 in Stamford. Health workers administered the first dose of the Moderna vaccine to more than 350 people from the immigrant and undocumented communities.John Moore / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Several advocacy groups across the state are criticizing the Lamont administration’s perceived interest in the state’s former juvenile detention center as a location for housing unaccompanied migrant youth, with one saying it would be a “warehousing of children in cages.”