Immigration detention

of the US Criminal Justice System has led many to question the effectiveness of juvenile detention centers. The goal of juvenile detention centers should be to ensure that the individual, on release, can be a functional law-abiding citizen. Currently 54,000 juveniles are in youth prisons. If it were one prison system, “it would be the fifth largest in the US”. The greatest concern about juvenile detention centers is whether or not it is creating a culture of violence in which these thousands…

Multiple factors have been identified that may contribute to delinquent behaviors in juveniles. These contributing factors include traumatic child abuse and neglect, inappropriate parenting behaviors, delinquent behaviors of peers, educational issues, and a history of maladjustment (Donges, 2015). Trauma can involve witnessing the attack, abuse, or endangerment of another human being, or being the victim of a threat or dangerous situation. What makes events traumatic is the feelings that…

juvenile incarceration in California the community needs of East Los Angeles have changed. California is rated among the worst states by placing a large amount of juveniles in detention and correction facilities from the ages of 10-21. (Cite) In 2002, California was ranked 46th out the 50 states with the rate of 392 youth in detention and correctional facilities. (Cite) There were a total of 53,830 juveniles incarcerated by police and a total of 31,081 juveniles were accused of committing a…

status offenses, is in affect to make sure that if a minor commits an offense such as running away, using or possessing alcohol or tobacco, that would not be considered a crime if an adult committed it, that the juvenile is not sent to juvenile detention facility. Instead, this protection focuses immensely on alternative rehabilitation. This meant that other services such as counseling, peer-mentoring, and community-building started to become implicated in the rehabilitation of juveniles in need…

Ciavarella was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The goal of juvenile court has always been rehabilitation, but it was a revolving door of punishment and incarceration under former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella” (Kalinowski,…

The average weight and height of a 17-year-old male is 142 lbs. and 5ft. 7 in. tall. The average weight and height of a 17-year-old female is 120 lbs. and 5ft. 3in. tall (Disabled-World). The average 17-year-olds intelligence about their actions and repercussions is close to none. After reading these things, does it seem fair to place a 17-year-old in adult prisons and jails? Sadly, multiple states place teenagers into their adult system everyday. Erik Eckholm of The New York Times states,…

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…

merger between two different agencies: The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home. Since the merge of the two different agencies, Legacy Treatment Services is able to offer crisis intervention, addiction, counseling, housing, educational, youth detention…

of people in this society and just let everyone live their lives the way they want to, the world will be a better place. There are a lot of ways that society can help defiant teenagers without automatically just expecting them to go to Juvenile detention centers. Everybody has rough patches in life and everybody makes mistakes. Society needs to find better ways to help these defiant teens, it can be as easy as just listening to the teen and their…

Can the augmented fixation on the topic of immigration be an unequivocal complication for the United States government and its citizens? The answer to this inquisition is yes, and it is particularly due to unconventional ideologies bestowed to the American civilization by biased media outlets. Some of these ideologies are based on the financial instability, moral threat, and the public safety of American families, which have consequently generated fear, uncertainty, and desperation. Furthermore…