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Published April 08. 2021 3:35PM | Updated April 08. 2021 10:07PM By MARK PAZNIOKAS and KELAN LYONS, Connecticut Mirror The troubled history of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a high-security detention facility located in Middletown and 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 buildin...

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 Famil...

By KELAN LYONS CTMIRROR.ORG 196 This Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 photo shows an entrance to Connecticut Valley Hospital campus in Middletown, Conn. The campus is home to the Whiting Forensic Division maximum-security psychiatric hospital, where some staff members have been suspended and several arrested in connection with allegations of misconduct and abuse. (AP Photo/Dave Collins) A federal lawsuit filed in April to protect patients in two state psychiatric hospitals from COVID-19 was dismissed Wednesday, a week after an advisory group recommended those at inpatient psychiatric facilities be amon...

A federal lawsuit filed in April to protect patients in two state psychiatric hospitals from COVID-19 was dismissed Wednesday, a week after an advisory group recommended those at inpatient psychiatric facilities be among the next wave of people eligible to receive the vaccine.