A troubled transgender girl detained in the Connecticut adult women’s prison for two months without criminal charges was moved Tuesday, June 24, to a psychiatric center for children following an outcry by her supporters.
Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz said the 16-year-old girl was relocated to the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Psychiatric Center, a DCF-run facility in Middletown. The teen had been detained at the York Correctional Institution, the state’s only women’s prison.
