WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	DCF selects old warehouse site for new Long Lane School (MIDDLETOWN-AP) _ A new juvenile training facility will be build on an old warehouse site near Connecticut Valley Hospital, the Department of Children and Families said Monday. The site, one of four DCF considered, will allow for the best layout and the quickest construction, the agency said. The new 240-bed Connecticut Juvenile Training Academy will be modeled on a juvenile detention facility in Ohio. The Legislature last week authorized spending $53 million for the facility, an environmental cleanup of the old site and a study of the juvenile justice system. The new facility will replace the 129-year-old Long Lane School, which has been criticized for its crumbling structure, lack of security and less-effective programs. The state will sell the old Long Lane site to Wesleyan University once the new facility is built. The university wants to expand its campus. In January, Middletown's City Council and mayor said in a 7-6 vote that they would prefer the new Long Lane be built near Connecticut Valley Hospital, not on the current site or on a site across the street. "They said they would give our vote great weight, and I am heartened to see they have abided by their word," Mayor Domenique Thornton said. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

DCF selects old warehouse site for new Long Lane School
(MIDDLETOWN-AP) _ A new juvenile training facility will be build on an old warehouse site near Connecticut Valley Hospital, the Department of Children and Families said Monday.

The site, one of four DCF considered, will allow for the best layout and the quickest construction, the agency said.

The new 240-bed Connecticut Juvenile Training Academy will be modeled on a juvenile detention facility in Ohio.

The Legislature last week authorized spending $53 million for the facility, an environmental cleanup of the old site and a study of the juvenile justice system.

The new facility will replace the 129-year-old Long Lane School, which has been criticized for its crumbling structure, lack of security and less-effective programs.

The state will sell the old Long Lane site to Wesleyan University once the new facility is built. The university wants to expand its campus.

In January, Middletown's City Council and mayor said in a 7-6 vote that they would prefer the new Long Lane be built near Connecticut Valley Hospital, not on the current site or on a site across the street.

"They said they would give our vote great weight, and I am heartened to see they have abided by their word," Mayor Domenique Thornton said.

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