Connecticut officials often speak with pride about the state’s juvenile justice system, and by some measures, rightly so—the state far and away surpasses most of the country in key benchmarks that juvenile justice advocates use to measure a fair system. These metrics include the number of juveniles tried in adult court, the overall number of delinquency charges, and the number of juveniles in detention facilities, all of which, they say, indicate success. But there is one area where t...