Immigration detention

Have you ever been to summer camp? If you have where? Have your parents ever let you stay at someone’s house for the summer? That is exactly what happens to Margaret Rose Kane in the book The Outcasts of 19 Schedler Place. There are many character in the book The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place the main character is Margaret she’s an only child and her parents left for an archeological dig in Peru for the summer. They told her that she gets to choose who she wants to stay with for the summer,…

minor. And then there are there disadvantages of a adult criminal court where the young adult can be sentenced to life, the young adult may have to serve time in an adult jail or prison (if it comes down to that),rather than going to a juvenile detention…

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 grant them a second chance and let them rot in prison, or do we rehabilitate them and help them become important members of…

2. Community-based alternatives. Community-based programs offer a more productive outcome than we youth are criminalized especially for petty crimes. When youth expriences being formally processed or held in custody it begins a cycle of disruption that it causes, not only affects them but disturbs the bonds between that youth, their family, and their community. 3. Dual-status youth. Dual status youth are youth who bounces between child welfare and juvenile justice systems and at times are…

understand the consequences of incarceration for juveniles, and be informed about the alternatives to incarceration. In order to discuss the alternatives to incarceration for juveniles, one must understand why there is a need for the alternatives. Detention centers were originally intended to hold…

Envision yourself as a fourteen-year-old sitting in a secluded prison for merely disregarding your C-train ticket once in your life. Before the Youth Criminal Justice Act, unreasonable consequences were thrown at you after only committing a minor offence by accident. That’s how important the Youth Criminal Justice Act is; it addresses youth crime in a fair and equitable manner. Since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003, we have seen the youth crime rate lower, youth are…

Being Grounded vs. Being in Jail “You can’t ground me! Taking away my phone is taking away my freedom! You’re basically putting in prison!” “You can’t do this to me, I’m a human being with rights!” Nowadays, many teenagers compare any punishment their parents enforce on them to being in jail. However this is not the case, yet a poorly conceived attempt to “sucker” their parents into feeling pity for them. Most parent’s punishments aren’t as severe as being forced a federal penitentiary for…

Race disparity in the Juvenile System In recent events that have unfolded with minority shootings, can we say that the justice system is fair with the minority youth? Recent studies show that minority juveniles are at a higher risk of being profiled and imprisoned than white juveniles. This gives reasoning to believe that there is an issue regarding minority disparity throughout the juvenile system. Which brings up the question are minority juveniles being arrested more, and are they offered a…

“After me and my family got evicted, I’m out of here. It’s hard to find a job, so this all I know. This is the first thing I go to.” Says Ross- a resident of Nicetown, Philadelphia, PA: which is among one of the areas hardest stricken by the effects of mass-incarceration and the lack of opportunities that accompany with it. Ross –a good-looking young man with tattoos up to his neck- recently finished time in prison and has no high school diploma, leading him to dealing drugs as the streets…

All over the United States, Immigrant detention locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year. Like prison mates, each wall carefully designed to hold one back from their freedom. These immigrant detention is where thousands of illegal individuals awaits a ruling of deportation or not. These includes the thousands of Central Americans families seeking asylum. Asylum is the legal protection afforded by the United States government to a person who can demonstrate a fear of persecution…