Juvenile Detention Facilities: A Case Study

We’ve all seen it at least once. We’ve all passed by a middle or a high school and seen a police car on campus. Sometimes we even happen to see a teen in handcuffs getting detained. When you see things like this happen do you ever just stop and think whether students that are detained or incarcerated get the education they need? There are few experiences in the lives of children as critical as education. While all children learn directly and indirectly from their families, neighbors, and peers, formal education and school experiences provide the foundation and establish the trajectory for post-secondary education, employment, and wellbeing in adulthood. Historically, one group of students in the United States has received grossly inadequate education: children in juvenile correctional facilities. Little to nothing is known about educational programs in juvenile detention centers. Limited information is available on best practices for educating youth in the juvenile justice system whether committed or detained. Koyama cites that existing empirically based educational practices do not readily transfer to the unique environment of a secure setting or adequately address the intense needs of court-involved youth (ctd. in Koyama 36).

In America we sometimes house juveniles and adults in the same prison system. In the state of Wisconsin in 2014, we have incarcerated 121 minors into the adult system. While incarcerating these juveniles in the prison system some may wonder how does it affect a juvenile, Also what problems do they face while in prison and lastly, how has their life change for better or worse after they are released back into society.

“The effects of the juvenile justice programs are “profound and crippling,” setting youth back instead of helping them.” (Just Learning: The Imperative to Transform Juvenile Justice Systems into Effective Educational Systems) These centers do much more harm than good when it comes to the children staying in these facilities. The “education” that these centers are giving

Tens of thousands of children are put into detention centers for reasons that contradict the purpose of juvenile detention centers. Not having enough resources isn’t an excuse to put a child through the system and worsen his current life and increase the odds of the youth continuing to grow into delinquency as they transition into adulthood. Cook County in Illinois, Multnomah County in Portland, and Santa Cruz County in California are exemplary leaders in our country that have begun a reform movement known as the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). The Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative in order to reduce pre-adjudicatory detention, reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system and increase public safety they:

Are juvenile justice centers are beneficial for troubled teens? Well I agree that juvenile justice centers are beneficial for troubled teens for many reasons, here's a couple .First,teens are young adults and they are suppose to make mistakes so that they can learn from them. Secondly, some teens don't have parents to show them what is good and what is bad. lastly, our teens are the future of this word so we need to get them ready. Let me break it down a little more for you. First thing's first, Teens are young adults and they are suppose to make mistakes so that they can learn

Daniel first became involved in the justice system at age 16. His legal history includes five intake contacts and two violations of parole. Daniel has had an intake contact for a felony offense. None of the intake contacts were for felony offenses against another person. He has no history of escape. He has had three juvenile detention confinements and no other court ordered placements.

USELESS JUVENILE INCARCERATION SYSTEM 2A Broken Juvenile Detention SystemThe juvenile detention system is broken because all troubled teens should be treated for instead of punished, rising recidivism rates are caused by punishment itself. The youth spends a lot of time that could be spent in a classroom behind bars. This issue is like a butterfly effect affecting society. The youth should be getting treated instead of being punished, serving punishment is the root of the problem. Justice cannot be served with racism floating throughout the air, racism pollutes the verdict.First off, wasted time is a wasted effort and time is something that can’t be received 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 owning a restaurant, logically an owner won’t want to remain open in business if work is slow, get very little customers, receive bad reviews, use tools in an unsafe manner endangering people around you. Well I wouldsay 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 issafe 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

I, Yuniqua Burris observed a pre-trial case June 13, 2016 at York County Detention Center also known as Moss Justice Center. I observed a case of Domestic Violence 3rd Degree between a young woman and her boyfriend. The criminal domestic violence law apples to anyone that lives with a spouse or who have lived with the spouse, if they've been married, or have children together. In this case young lady and her boyfriend have a child together this is why it's considered a domestic violence case. The young man pressed charges against the woman. The young lady was arrested April 15, 2016. After that day the judge issued an protection order against the young man until farther notice witch was the following court date. The charge could've carried

The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (“JDAI”) came about by a philanthropy started in 1992 by Jim Casey, founder and CEO of United

The age requirement for a youth to enter inside a secure facility is between the age of 5 and 21. A youth that is above the age of 16 and does not have superior court chargers and committed to the state the youth can be housed at a juvenile detention to they are 21 years of age. If the youth is a superior court youth and has turned 17 the youth will be transfer to the county jail where they committed their offense. Or they will be transferred to the Department of Corrections if they have been given their time. In some cases they judge may allow the youth to stay inside a juvenile detention while the youth is on trial even if the youth has turned 17. It must be a court order.

The justice system is a confusing, scary, and irritating system, especially when dealing with juveniles. Although it's modeled after the traditional justice system which is designed to suit adults, they each have their differences. They are both forms of punishment, but in my opinion juvenile jail were created to rehabilitate the youth while jail is the waiting room for the penitentiary. Everyone is entitled their own opinion on any subject matter. Here is one and let's see if you agree.

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives how do they feel in juvenile prison? Do they even know that if their life is bad, what is prisons life like? Do they know what are the consequence for breaking prisons rule? Why is respect so important within the prison environment?

To better understand the role of education in juvenile detention centers it requires an understanding of the history of juvenile courts in the United States of America. Unfortunately, before to the nineteenth century, there was very little effort to differentiate between juveniles and adults who committed crimes. The whole criminal justice system including the laws, trial procedure and penalties that applied to children were the same that applied to adults (Houchins, Jolivette, Wessendorf, McGlynn, Nelson 2005). Furthermore, children were even incarcerated in the same prisons as adults. Last, juveniles were subject to the death penalty for certain crimes like their adult counterparts (Houchins, 2005).

on June 12, 1959 shortly after 7:00 p.m., he was taken into custody. At about 2:30 a.m. on June 13, he was charged with first degree murder under the Juvenile Detention Act since he was only 14. After the conviction, he spent four months in the shadows until his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Paroled in 1969, Steven disappeared in a southern Ontario city. ​

“I used to believe are our future but now I realize that this, sadly isn’t the reality. Through laws that treat kids like adults, the government is throwing away the future of children in this country.” (D. Lee) An estimated 200,000 juveniles are tried as adults. The term juvenile refers to any young person under the age of 18. For most states in the United States, the age of majority is 18. While there are many things that juveniles are unable to do until they reach the age of 18, being charged as an adult for a crime is not amongst those things in some states. Juveniles are not allowed to vote, drink alcohol, or sign a legal contract, yet they can be charged and treated like adults when it comes to them being