Jane Doe‘s transfer to the Pueblo Unit of the Solnit Psychiatric Center in Middletown during June — following months of being housed at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison — might have seemed like the end of the fight, but ten people gathered outside of the Department of Children and Families headquarters on Wednesday to demand justice for the teen.
On July 12th, Jane Doe was allegedly part of an altercation involving four females. A letter issued on July 23rd by the Office of the Child Advocate states that all those girls were restrained and were described in DCF records as hitting each other and staff. Only Jane Doe was transferred to the boys’ unit of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School to be in isolation.
Even the Courant has asked why this girl is being singled out.
At the latest rally, activists claimed that DCF “looked the other way” when Jane Doe claimed she was being abused.
“If [DCF doesn’t] want a PR nightmare, maybe they shouldn’t treat people like this,”
Activists calling for Joette Katz, the DCF Commissioner, to no longer fill that position said that Jane Doe’s situation is “not an isolated case.”
Another speaker claimed that Jane Doe “was put in prison because she had so much public support.”
With the rally beginning after the typical work day ended, only a few people came out of the building to listen. The building also houses the Department of Economic & Community Development
