Katal Connecticut Update- April 13, 2023
In this issue:
-Katal Op-ed in the Hartford Courant
-Upcoming BLOC Training
-Save the Date: CT Food Justice Gathering
-Quotes of the Week
Kenyatta Muzzanni: The Connecticut Juvenile Training School should be demolished
By: Kenyatta Muzzanni via Hartford Courant For 20 years our politicians force-fed us a line that the Connecticut Juvenile Training School was an educational institution when it was actually a prison for kids. The facility closed in 2018 after decades of community organizing and public outcry over the inhumane conditions and abuses children experienced behind its walls. […]
Dismantling Middletown’s Dark Past: A Tumultuous History of Juvenile Incarceration and the Future of the CJTS
By: Carolyn Neugarten via The Wesleyan Argus The remains of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS), a jarring ring of six cement and brick buildings, lie among the rows of pale yellow and blue houses situated along Middletown’s Silver Street. Accounts of inhumane use of solitary confinement and chemical agents on juvenile offenders, untrained staff, […]
Katal Connecticut Update- March 3, 2023
In this issue:
-Press Conference In Middletown To Keep Youth Prison Closed!
-Upcoming #CutShutInvestCT Phone Banking Session
-ICYMI: BLOC Training & Growing Power Workshop Series
-Quotes of the Week
Protesters gather at former CT Juvenile Training School, calling for state to ‘bulldoze’ building
By: Cassandra Day via The MiddleTown Press MIDDLETOWN — About 25 people gathered at the now closed Connecticut Juvenile Training School on River Road to protest against any school being located at the site of the former state-run prison for boys, calling for the building to be knocked down. The facility was closed in 2018. The issue came […]
Advocates want Middletown youth prison kept closed amid talks to reopen as a charter school
By: Molly Ingram via WSHU Public Radio Connecticut advocates want a former youth prison in Middletown to be demolished. They say children at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, which closed in 2018, were subjected to neglect and abuse. The state has considered repurposing the building multiple times. Most recently, Capital Preparatory submitted an application to […]
RELEASE: Community Members, Parents, Groups, Educators, and Local Elected Officials Hold Press Conference in Middletown to Keep Youth Prison Closed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 27th, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz, yonah@katalcenter.org | (347) 201-2768 Follow on Twitter @KatalCenter | #CutShutInvestCT #CutShutInvestCT Campaign – Community Members, Parents, Groups, Educators – and Local Elected Officials Hold Press Conference in Middletown to Keep Youth Prison Closed With a Long, Notorious History, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School Must be […]
Capital Prep Charter School Middletown decides against ex-juvenile detention center location
By: Cassandra Day via The Middletown Press MIDDLETOWN — The group behind a proposed Capital Preparatory Middletown Charter School said Friday it will no longer pursue the idea of building a facility at the former state-run Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a location that members of the public opposed. “We are sensitive to the fact that there are […]
ADVISORY: Monday 2/27, 4:30 p.m, #CutShutInvestCT Campaign, Community Groups, Families, and Local Elected Officials Demand Youth Prison Remain Closed
**MEDIA ADVISORY** February 24, 2023 Contact: Yonah Zeitz – 347-201-2768 – yonah@katalcenter.org Follow online: #CutShutInvestCT | www.katalcenter.org Middletown, CT: Community Members, Parents, Groups, Educators, and Local Elected Officials to Hold Press Conference to Keep Youth Prison Closed The Connecticut Juvenile Training School Has a Long History of Neglect and Abuse of Young People, […]
Katal Connecticut Update- February 16, 2023
In this issue:
-State Board of Education Must Reject Application to Re-Open Youth Prison as a Charter School
-This Saturday 2/18: BLOC Training & Growing Power Workshop Series
-Honoring Lorenzo Jones for Black History Month
-Quotes of the Week
