Judiciary Committee
Human Services Committee
AN ACT CONCERNING CHILDREN CONVICTED AS DELINQUENT WHO ARE COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
SUMMARY: This act allows some detained juvenile delinquents to qualify for leave and release earlier than they would have otherwise. Under existing Department of Children and Families (DCF) facility rules, juvenile delinquents cannot be granted leave or release unless they have satisfactorily completed a 60-day fitness and security risk evaluation.
The act allows the DCF commissioner to waive this requirement when a delinquent who transferred from one facility to another had already satisfactorily completed the evaluation before the transfer.
The act also eliminates a requirement that DCF prepare a plan to keep delinquents sent to the Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS) housed in that facility for at least one year (CJTS is the state's all-male, high security juvenile detention facility). The plan also had to take a comprehensive approach to juvenile rehabilitation.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2011
BACKGROUND
Related Act
PA 11-157 also eliminates the requirement that DCF keep juveniles at CJTS for at least one year.
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