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| Report: Over 200 Crimes Committed at Conn. Juvenile Detention Centers in Six-month Period |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/23/2002 |
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A newspaper analysis suggests that crime is a problem at Connecticut's juvenile detention facilities, prompting a lawmaker and the state's child advocate to demand details about the offenses. The Journal Inquirer of Manchester studied three years of data provided by the Judicial Branch and determined that assaults by juveniles at the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center rose tenfold between 1999 and 2001. In 1999, only one youth incarcerated at the Hartford facility, which holds an average of 40 children, was charged with a crime, assault on a fellow detainee. The number of arrests at the facility grew to four the following year. They included three charges of assault on a detainee and one charge of possession of marijuana. There were 10 arrests in 2001 and all involved assaults, including five attacks against detainees and five against staff. The newspaper also reported on September 11 that 211 crimes were committed in the first six months of this year by children in custody at the new Connecticut Juvenile Training School for boys and Long Lane School for girls. Both Middletown detention facilities are operated by the state Department of Children and Families. Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein and state Sen. Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Killingly, said they want the Judicial Branch, which operates juvenile jails in Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport, and DCF to provide more information about crimes in the facilities. Williams, co-chairman of the legislature's Select Committee on Children, said it's not surprising there are occasional violent outbursts in a detention center. Along with the training school and Long Lane, DCF runs five other facilities. According to DCF, there were a total of 76 children charged with 124 crimes over the six-month period at those centers. Gary Kleeblatt, a spokesman for DCF, said the numbers should not be considered out of the ordinary for a detention facility. |
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