Juvenile Detention Center

The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a documented tragedy of a complex, failed system of justice. There are many efforts to reduce incarceration after a person has interacted with the criminal justice system, but by then it may be too late. The causes of the school-to-prison pipeline and the attempts to address it will be discusses in depth. This paper proposes that a preemptive, creative, and collaborative approach will be more effective and realistic in reducing incarceration. A solution that incorporates existing resources, both in public educational institutions, as well as the private business sector will plug the school-to-prison pipeline by giving educational career opportunities to those at risk.

Helping adolescents will circumvent the astronomical amount of money made by prison systems. Change is enviable, but many people want to keep things the same. Jails are making money because inmates work for pennies on the dollar. Most prisons support and employ the whole town or city. Lawmakers and prison owners want to continue to reap the revenue benefits. Progressive laws make better living conditions. Challenges from prison owners and lawmakers will make it harder to protect adolescents from being charged like

Additionally, Ameen & Lee (2010) are focused on what a juvenile is going to do after his or her detention is completed. These two researchers wanted to make it known that juveniles in detention, especially for a significant amount of time, need access to vocational training. Vocational training can aid in eliminating the down time a juvenile has. In turn, the detained juvenile is thought to have fewer violations, fewer punishments, as well as a greater chance for employment. Delinquent youth that are detained have had a disruption in the normal transition from a juvenile leading into the late teen years, and then onto adulthood. If these disruptions are not remedied, then the youth has a decreased chance of a normal life (Ameen & Lee, 2010).

There are numerous federal and state laws granting all juveniles the right to education, which apply to youth in correctional facilities. Most juvenile jails do not have any type of educatiuon for the juveniles what so ever . Also most adult jails or prisons have any education also. A survey in 2005 found that 40 percent of adult facilities had no educational services at all.

Programs have been put into place for criminals to receive an education while they are serving time. Prisoners have the opportunity to receive a high school diploma or a college degree at their discretion. The “Bard Prison Initiative” (BPI) was created to provide an opportunity for incarcerated men and women to earn a Bard College degree while serving their sentences (What We Do). Since 1999, the program has been incorporated in prisons, utilizing a partnership with Bard College in the effort to restore structured education to the prison system. Furthermore, the “Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program” has a primary focus on increasing opportunities for men and women, inside and outside of prison (). “It provides a transformative learning experience that emphasizes collaboration and dialogue, inviting participants to take leadership in addressing crime, justice, and other issues of social concern” (The Inside-Out Center). These programs are proven to be effective and have a direct correlation in the amount of discharged criminals who do not return to

First off, wasted time is a wasted effort and you can never get your time back. Juveniles are humans and have minds, actions, and feelings like every human being, it has to be kept in mind that control can’t be kept over everyone. Think about having your own restaurant, logically you don’t want to remain open in business if you get very little customers, receive bad reviews, use tools in an unsafe manner endangering people around you. Well I would say a detention facility is very similar. If it’s not bringing any benefit to the youth or their families, then what is the purpose of having these facilities as a form of punishment? Facts are provided based off some of these facilities major flaws. “Specifically, the report will show that these facilities are frequently: (1) dangerous, (2) ineffective, (3) unnecessary, (4) obsolete, (5) wasteful, and (6) inadequate. A subsequent chapter addresses the question of public safety, finding that states where juvenile confinement was sharply reduced in recent years experienced more favorable trends in juvenile crime than jurisdictions which maintained or increased their correctional facility populations....” (Mendel, 2013). Logically, based on the results provided it is safe to say that not confining juveniles will show a positive outcome. The juvenile crime rates are favorably lower for cities and help maintain correctional facility population to a norm. Solid evidence is provided that these detention centers are not doing too much, other alternatives such as offering them help would be much more reasonable.

“If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime!” a phrase many say about jail, prison or a Juvenile Program. Basically what it means is don’t commit something against the law if you don’t want to spend the time. If you do, you ill either go to prison jail or a juvenile justice center. Some children in the juvenile center don’t think it’s close to a punishment, some think its torcher, and some stay till they are 18 and transfer to prison. But the point is, is juveniles beneficial for children? Well my claim is, they are.

Removing such program allows the learners the chance to become something more in life rather than falling victim to the School to Prison Pipeline. If not removed the school to prison pipeline will also allow private prisons to grow and have a negative effect on states and local governments. Unfortunately, the number of private prison has increased for-profit prisons offer no real benefits and are bad investments for states (Western). Furthermore, private prisons beleaguer communities with high turnover rates that hurt local economies (Western). The demands of these institutions put an excessive burden on the local community’s

In the system of the Juvenile Justice System ( J.J.S) they spend a lot of money on troubled youth. The J.J.S should attempt to help these kids but, not spend thousands of dollars a year to help “rehabilitate” these kids. The kids that come in should not come into be spoon fed with nice things while in detention. They are not there because they are victims, they are there because they are victims of their own decisions.

“States reported that approximately 9,900 incarcerated persons earned a certificate in the 2009–10 academic year; 2,200 associate’s degrees were awarded, and nearly 400 students earned bachelor’s degrees” Sponsler and Gorgol (2011). Education has the ability to positively impact any individual especially those who face the challenges of incarceration. Although this is not a topic that influential individuals in the U.S. seem to discuss too often, it is something that impacts a large number of people in the institutional system, thus having universal impacts on the rest of the population.

Counseled and supervised all types of juvenile offenders within the confines of the juvenile facility.

For delinquent youth, education is seen as the core aspect of rehabilitation. Most of these youth have experienced less than satisfactory education throughout their lives and are illiterate. More than one-third of juvenile inmates have learning disabilities (Mathur, Clark, Schoenfeld, 2009). Around 30-70% of incarcerated youth require special education programs whereas in America’s public school system, only about 12% require these special services (Young, Phillips, Nasir, 2010). In a study by the US Department of Education in 2002 (as cited in Morris, Thompson, 2008), it was found that 47.7% of juveniles in detention centers had emotional disabilities, 38.6% had learning disabilities, and there were 9.7% with mental retardation. These youth have very specific, unique educational needs due to their

When they get older it is hard to persuade them to influence of education, and training on reoffending declines, and with each additional admission into prison, the likelihood of returning increases. Therefore, the potential to break the cycle of reoffending before it becomes entrenched is highest for young people. Thus Educating in the initial phases of imprisonment is vital for particularly young prisoners. Programs designed in Correctional training provide incarcerated persons the skills and knowledge that are vital for the betterment for their future. Particularly financing in such programs is immensely supportive for released prisoners to strengthen their confidence and stand on their own feet successful when they get back to the public.

During incarceration, education can help change inmates emotions and attitudes towards different people. They work in a confined space with people from different backgrounds, yet they may have similarities. With this type of an environment inmates become more social with one another and more open when contributing their ideas (Why should we care). This can be very helpful when it comes to rehabilitating the social interactions and mental health of an inmate in order to prepare them for the outside world once again (Why should we care).

rehabilitate the youth although we can see that in most cases did the juveniles a disservice with this continued cycle. One can see that there is benefit in offenders engaging in educational and other learning programs that are extremely helpful and aid in keeping juveniles and adults from reoffending. It also gives the inmates a sense of worth and work ethic and it is not only