Advocates Encourage Bill To Advance Youth Justice - Across Connecticut, CT - A new house bill coudl positively impact the education, de-carceration and treatment of children in the juvenile system.
My time in prison – where I was one of the youngest – was frightening. Violence was everywhere. I tried to mask my fear by acting tough and ended up in solitary for nearly two weeks.
Ending solitary confinement will protect lives and also save money
SB 1059 s Fiscal Note is drastically inflated
This year the PROTECT Act, otherwise known as Senate Bill 1059, offers Connecticut an opportunity to address conditions in Connecticut state prisons and jails that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture condemns as “a State-sanctioned policy aimed at purposefully inflicting severe pain… which may well amount to torture.” If passed, the PROTECT Act would end solitary confinement by guaranteeing minimum time out of cell, banning abusive restraints, ensuring access to pro-social communication, increasing correctional accountability, and supporting the mental health of correctional officers.
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.”
Everybody in, especially those left out
Systemic racism permeates Connecticut s policies on prisons in many ways. It s time to fix that.
In the wake of the spate of gun violence massacres, resuming again with deadly consequences, we are at a familiar crossroads: Do we revert to our usual, American individualized ‘othering,’, or do we reconcile that there is no ‘them’- only ‘us,’ that we refuse to claim?
State Rep. Anne Hughes
I’m campaigning to reframe the American ‘us’ from some of y’all to “ALL of us all!”
It’s time to claim we all belong to this place, this promise of America; we all deserve to be safe in our American community, and it’s time we declare a ‘ceasefire’ and release the prisoners of war those incarcerated from our state-sanctioned war on drugs and our deliberately unjust laws designed to deprive some of us economic justice, opportunity, education, health, liberty, and life itself.