Youth detention center

Father Bobby. Lorenzo came from an abusive household with an abusive father. It was only natural that he would cling to a man who appeared to have a strong heart, not a cowardly one. There was one incident where Father Bobby came to the Juvenile Detention Center to see how Lorenzo was doing. Lorenzo tells Father Bobby everything that’s been going on, besides the fact that they’re getting raped by the guards. He trusts Father Bobby with almost everything, that’s why they have such a strong bond,…

policymakers to expand laws to put juveniles in adult court. States are on average spending millions to incarcerate youth in adult prisons. It costs on average $43,000 to house a youth offender in a juvenile facility. As a consequence, the tax payers save $57,000 by allowing adolescents to be tried in juvenile court. These statistics are per youth per year. Now imagine the 10,000 youths that come through the adult system yearly. The dollar amount of savings would be $570,000,000. The…

A juvenile being in an adult prison is a message saying ‘lost hope’. This means that since they are giving juvenile extremely hard sentences, it give them no hope for their future and no hope for themselves either. They would be stuck as criminals for rest of the eternity. Some juveniles doesn’t want to lose that hope that they probably decided to never commit crime ever again if it’s mean losing their dream goals. The child won’t be able to continue his maturity and growing up to be an adult…

crime, as of now people are only being hurt, with juveniles taking the brunt of that harm. One major law in need of reform is the law pertaining to felony murder. This charge is responsible for putting thousands of youths into prison for decades or even for their entire lives. Those youths charged with felony murder include those “who did no harm, possessed no weapon and did not intend to hurt anyone.” (New York Daily News). The idea that someone who did nothing wrong in every sense of the word…

In No Throwaway Boy by Abdul Lloyd-Bey, the author writes a story about his life and what he’d been through. Abdul Lloyd-Bey came from Bushwick, Brooklyn, living in a small apartment with his parents and siblings. Growing up in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Abdul was surrounded by lots of gang and gun violence, drugs, and poverty. Living in a neighborhood that dealt with violence, drugs, and poverty, Abdul had became accustomed to that environment. At a young age he was being involved in gang…

The reason children who are minors should be tried as adults are to keep society safe and better off. The average ages for juvenile delinquents to commit crimes is usually between the ages of fifteen to nineteen(From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending), which means they have had at least fifteen years to learn what’s right and wrong. And even then they are seen as to be rehabilitated instead of simply tried and sentenced. If a minor can commit murder, he or she should be sentenced…

believe that juveniles who commit adult crime must go to adult prisons. Some people believe that it is unfair for juveniles because they are young and their brains are still not fully developed. The Juvenile Justice System provides rehabilitation to the youth offenders who are under the age of 25. The Proposition 21, which was passed in 2000, permitted juveniles, who committed serious crimes, to be sent to adult courts. This law made the prosecutor decide whether the minor should be tried as an…

“Behavior of a child or youth that is so marked by violation of law,persistent mischievousness, antisocial behavior, disobedience, orintractability as to thwart correction by parents and to constitute amatter for action by the juvenile courts” (Dictionary.com, 2015). According to the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) the costs we bear for overreliance on youth confinement is “sticker shock” (2014). There is a criterion which affirms that temporary confinement of juvenile offenders is still…

important than others and affect everyone differently. One of the problems in our country is youth incarceration. Youth Incarceration needs to be reconfigured into a positive changing experience for troubled teens instead of a horrible time that effects the reason of their lives in a negative way. Youth incarceration is when a young adult younger than eighteen is sentenced to serve a certain amount of time in a detention facility or an adult prison if the crime is big enough for that form of…

The study on suicide ideation and suicide attempt, which was the thesis of this article focused on the consequences of multiple adverse life experiences, included male and female adolescents at an urban juvenile detention facility in Ohio (Bhatta, Jefferis, Kavadas, Alemagno & Shaffer-King, 2014). The four adverse life events which were the primary focus of the study are: (1) sexual abuse, (2) homelessness, (3) running away, and (4) substance abuse in the family. The authors believe that an…