The Connecticut Juvenile Training School and the lie that built it
The Connecticut Juvenile Training Center, closed in 2018.
Sitting in the paddy wagon, I was afraid – maybe apprehensive was a better word, since I rightly suspected that white privilege would guarantee me good treatment. Still, I said a prayer of thanksgiving. After years of advocating for people in our carceral system, I was given a chance to develop more empathy.
Together with many other advocates, I’d been arrested for blocking the entrance to the Abraham Ribicoff Federal Building, the Connecticut base of ICE. This was 2018, at the height of the Trump Administration’s criminal separation of families at the southern border. We were protesting that and calling for the elimination of ICE.
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