EAST LYME, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut prison officials say they’re detaining a transgender juvenile at the state women’s jail, after a judge transferred custody of the teen from the Department of Children and Families to the Department of Correction.
The Correction Department announced Tuesday that the juvenile was sent to the York Correctional Institution in the Niantic section of East Lyme. Officials told The Day of New London that it’s the first time a transgender juvenile has been detained at a state adult prison.
Prison officials are not naming the teen.
Authorities say the juvenile was sent to the prison under a state law that allows judges to transfer custody of juvenile delinquents from the DCF to the Correction Department when they are deemed dangerous to themselves and cannot be safely held by the DCF.
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