DCF commissioner says old juvenile detention center could humanely shelter migrant kids
MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG
Vanessa Dorantes, the commissioner of DCF, said the juvenile training center could be humanely reimagines as a shelter for border migrants.
The troubled history of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a high-security detention facility closed in 2018, should not disqualify it from becoming a shelter for migrant children now housed in overcrowded facilities in Texas, state officials said Thursday.
Vannessa Dorantes, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, said the visceral reaction some people have to using a former detention facility is based on how the building was used and does not reflect how it could be humanely repurposed.
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