Good morning. Society is faced with an increasingly growing problem. The problem is that children and teens are committing heinous crimes at a young age. The question is, do we sentence these children and teens to incarceration for the rest of their lives, or do we instead try to rehabilitate these teens and children and find the root causes of these problems? Do we not give them a second chance and let them rot in prison, or do we rehabilitate them and help them become important members of society? Children as young as nine years old are being tried as an adult in trial. Is it fair to hold these children and teens to the same mentality of adults? Children and teens should not be tried as adults, instead the judicial system should focus on
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He reported that many of the children had evidence of abuse, some even missing teeth, some ending up with broken bones, and some rendered unconscious. Some of these attacks were caused by stealing a cookie, and in one case, laughing. Some odd eighty percent of juveniles in adult prison get abused and p the average cost for a juvenile in adult prison costs around $210,000. The system is throwing these children into prison without taking into consideration their past lives or their rehabilitation. The system is simply treating the symptom rather than the cause. If the system instead looked at the underlying cause for the acting out of the child, then not only would the government be saving money, they also would be saving young lives. The state of Missouri was the first trial run of focusing on the rehabilitation in the juvenile system. After years of implying this principle, after three years in the rehabilitation program, only three percent of the juveniles ended up back in jail. In other states without this program in place, the rate is well over fifty percent. The creation of this program started when Missouri realized they had a problem, and one judge set out to fix it. Once he decided that he would not send another child into adult jail in the 1970s, he created the rehabilitation program in Missouri that is still in use and getting stronger today. If other states were …show more content…
Mainly, the cause is the problems at home. According to prisonfellowship.org, "there are 2.7 million children with a parent in prison or jail. Ninety-five percent of parents in prison are fathers. Most - two out of three inmates- will reoffend and be back in prison." That leaves a staggering number of one out of three children live without their dad at home. That is not the only cause, and it does not mean that every child with a parent in jail will become a criminal, however statistics show that children with parents in jail, normally end up in jail themselves because of the lack of a proper role model. One of the other common patterns in juveniles in prison who are accused of crimes is child abuse or neglect within the home. Drugs and alcohol are also factors that commonly contribute to a child or teen's incarceration. Taking all of these factors into consideration, does it seem fair to judge them to the same standard as an adult, or should the system try and fix the wrongs that these have had to go
He reported that many of the children had evidence of abuse, some even missing teeth, some ending up with broken bones, and some rendered unconscious. Some of these attacks were caused by stealing a cookie, and in one case, laughing. Some odd eighty percent of juveniles in adult prison get abused and p the average cost for a juvenile in adult prison costs around $210,000. The system is throwing these children into prison without taking into consideration their past lives or their rehabilitation. The system is simply treating the symptom rather than the cause. If the system instead looked at the underlying cause for the acting out of the child, then not only would the government be saving money, they also would be saving young lives. The state of Missouri was the first trial run of focusing on the rehabilitation in the juvenile system. After years of implying this principle, after three years in the rehabilitation program, only three percent of the juveniles ended up back in jail. In other states without this program in place, the rate is well over fifty percent. The creation of this program started when Missouri realized they had a problem, and one judge set out to fix it. Once he decided that he would not send another child into adult jail in the 1970s, he created the rehabilitation program in Missouri that is still in use and getting stronger today. If other states were …show more content…
Mainly, the cause is the problems at home. According to prisonfellowship.org, "there are 2.7 million children with a parent in prison or jail. Ninety-five percent of parents in prison are fathers. Most - two out of three inmates- will reoffend and be back in prison." That leaves a staggering number of one out of three children live without their dad at home. That is not the only cause, and it does not mean that every child with a parent in jail will become a criminal, however statistics show that children with parents in jail, normally end up in jail themselves because of the lack of a proper role model. One of the other common patterns in juveniles in prison who are accused of crimes is child abuse or neglect within the home. Drugs and alcohol are also factors that commonly contribute to a child or teen's incarceration. Taking all of these factors into consideration, does it seem fair to judge them to the same standard as an adult, or should the system try and fix the wrongs that these have had to go