Report: Youths face 'alarming' isolation in CT's adult prisons

Young men in CT's adult prisons have endured conditions that have caused downward mental health spirals, the Child Advocate reported.

Young men housed in Connecticut’s adult prisons have spent long periods in isolation, receiving almost no programming or mental health services, few visits, little recreation and frequent strip searches — conditions that have caused downward mental health spirals in some of these youths, the state Office of the Child Advocate said Wednesday. In a new report, the Child Advocate found that youths between ages 18 and 21 who have been designated “security risks” — a specialized status generally given to young people thought to be gang members — were being held in restrictive housing units for mont

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