Facility to end Conn. contract for troubled youth

[hurrikayne]

Facility to end Conn. contract for troubled youth
December 11, 2008

NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. - A North Stonington facility is ending its contract to treat adolescents in state custody who have drug problems or mental illness.

Stonington Institute cited a lack of demand for the inpatient programs, resulting from the state's increasing preference to send those youths to community-based programs.

This week's decision comes two months after reports that employees forcibly injected medications into out-of-control teen boys last spring to restrain them.

That news prompted criticism over whether the state Department of Children and Families adequately monitors facilities that care for adolescents in state custody.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and state Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein called Stonington's decision "sad, but entirely necessary" as the state overhauls its handling of troubled youths under DCF authority.

[hurrikayne]

My apologies, the link: http://http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--teensinjected-pro1211dec11,0,6201850.story

[Ursus]

Also previously posted by wdtony, in the same forum, here:

viewtopic.php?f=49&t=26354

Maybe it would be helpful if people did a search prior to posting.

[hurrikayne]

I felt his title was misleading, nowhere does the article state the program is CLOSING.  It states that, "treat adolescents in state custody who have drug problems or mental illness."  So, if you're in state custody and do NOT have drug problems or mental illness, you could still get sent here.

[Anonymous]

Not to mention the fact that the staff can just find another position somewhere else. Even if a program closes for abuse or whatever reason, the staffers still get jobs damn near anywhere without too many questions or oversight, out of kettle, into fire. Have you an article where the facility closed, US Marshals came in and confiscated all documents/property and forced accountability of the perps? Probably not recently.

I envision an article like this one day:

World Press Report:
Kingston, Jamaica
35 Federal Marshals, 10 Marines, several doctors and nurses descended upon a secluded hotel on the SW corner of the island today in helicopters, humvees along with support of a US Naval medical support ship and at least one F-18 Super Hornet fighter. This contingency was there to extricate over 285 US citizen teenaged children, some of whom had been confined for over 4 years by a private American business called Tranquility Bay. Reports from Kingston have indicated that at least 5 US Embassy staff have been arrested and will be extradited to Federal Court in Miami later tomorrow. The children were seen being ferried to the medical support ship and transported by helicopter to Montego Bay for departure to the US. Several TB facility staff were seen being loaded at gunpoint into buses with iron bars on the windows. One person, the alleged director of the facility was heard screaming as he was restrained and hogtied by the Marshals while being thrown into the back of the bus. Once confirmation of the evacuation process was attained, the F-18 dropped its payload of four 500 pound laser guided bombs on it, leaving a large crater. Updates will be provided as they become available...