Juvenile Prisoners In Prisons

The majority of prisoners in jails are pretrial detainees. These individuals have not been convicted and awaiting his or her due process clause. Therefore, under the due process clause, they are still afford the same rights and privileges as prison inmates. If there is any consolidation, inmates in jails have less restriction than those in prisons. For example, if a person post his or her bail, they are able to leave the jails. While, inmates in prisons are required to fulfill their sentencing or release on parole. Inmates protected rights are solidified in the decision of Bell v. Wolfish. Jail inmates are entitled to personal property, mail, privacy, free speech, health care, visitors, and access to the courts.
Jails hold various types of inmates including pretrial detainees, those not release on bail, inmates awaiting new charges, or to testify in another cases. In a sense, only those serving short sentence or required brief stay are house in jails. Hence, the security of jails is not as strict as those in prisons. Also, jails are small facilities so they are unable to hold larger number of inmates like prisons Furthermore, most jails are running by local authorities in which there is barely adequate funding to run the facility.. Therefore, it is not suitable to house long-term incarcerated individual in jails. …show more content…
The court held three general differences between juveniles and adults. The court view juvenile as lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility, vulnerable or susceptible to negative pressures which result less control over their own environment, and juvenile’s characters is less well-formed compared to that of an adult (Cripe, pg. 464). For these reason, juvenile does not illustrated criminal responsibility and required the protection from the government. Therefore, juvenile records are sealed by the courts as a mean to protect juvenile from stigma when they were unaware of their