Juvenile Detention Centers

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Juvenile detention centers are secured (for major offense) and non-secure (for minor offense) facilities where troubled youths who have committed crimes are sentenced to for a short period of time or while they are awaiting their court date. This essay is about juvenile detention centers meeting the needs of the children as far as education, mental illness, and what we can try to do to make things better. The number of youths that are incarcerated is increasing and will continue to increase if we don't help our kids grow to become productive by showing them the different ways and outcomes of life. I know that it is hard to shadow your child and keep them in a bubble especially when your living in a bad area and can't afford to move. We as parents …show more content…

Being incarcerated can cause a lot of physiological damage to children and it can also harm them developmentally. Do juvenile detention facilities meet the needs of juveniles? In my opinion I think the children are being deprived from many different services educations being number one. I recently read that the goals of corrections are retribution which is the punishment of offenders for crimes. Incapacitation which refers to locking up offenders or removing their ability to move freely in society which enables them to commit crime. Deterrence which aims to prevent crime and delinquency by showing offenders that the cost and consequences of aberrant behavior outweigh the benefits. The last one is rehabilitation which provides the philosophical foundation for our juvenile’s justice and describes intervention efforts that seek to modify the factors that cause offenders to engage in crime and delinquency (Hess, Wright 2013). With that being said I don't see any system talking about the physical and mental wellbeing or anything dealing with …show more content…

The percentage of boys with mentally illness is 70 percent and in girls its 80 percent (Juvenile Detention, 2015). Working at a group home, I know these numbers are correct because all of our kids came from the group home came from RYDC and it was only 5 out of the 60+ kids we had that did not take any meds. When the children got to our facility is when they were seen by a doctor and put on meds but being in juvenile detention facilities many of these problems go untreated or dealt with inadequately (Juvenile Detention, 2015). Suicide is even more likely for adolescents confined in isolation (Juvenile Detention,

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