Stress In A Juvenile Detention Center

The juvenile justice system faces a significant challenge in identifying and responding to the psychiatric disorders of detained youth because research has shown that it is difficult to define the best means to use and enhance the scarce mental health resources (Kessler & Kraus, 2007). According to Cocozza and Skowyra (2000) “Children’s and adolescents’ mental health needs have historically been addressed inadequately in policy, practice, and research and have only the number of youth with mental illness and their level of unmet needs recognized” (p 4). Furthermore, that the juvenile justice system has gone from treatment and rehabilitation to retribution and punishment, that the prevalence is

The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) began in 1992 by the Annie C. Casey Foundation with the purpose of providing alternatives to low-risk teens being placed in detention centers. Detention decisions are based on criteria standards for possible alternatives to incarceration. Data is collected to provide accurate numbers to help diagnose and provide alternative solutions to system issues. The JDAI is also actively involved in collaborating between government agencies, and policies regarding these system issues and youth reform. Incarceration options also reduce teens being placed in detention for warrants, awaiting placement and violations.

Many juveniles who entered the juvenile justice system are victims themselves of parental mistreatment such as neglect, physical, and emotional abuse. Once children into the juvenile system and is labeled a juvenile similar to adults being labeled a felon. These young offenders are stigmatized as criminal with little distinction between adults and juvenile offenders entering the prison system for the first time. Bernstein (2014) paints a vivid picture of how incarcerated juveniles expose to a new set of challenges such as posttraumatic stress syndrome, curtailed education, gang affiliation, and a gladiator mentality. These challenges that can develop in juvenile facility has

Childhood is a time in which memories are created, adventures are explored and social awareness begins to develop. The events that occur during childhood are pivotal in the development of a healthy and substantial life. However, what if those experiences were taken from a child? What would the outcome be if a child could not experience what it is like to be young? Juvenile incarceration strips a person of their childhood and essentially takes away the experiences necessary for them to develop into healthy functioning adults. Even though juvenile incarceration is an effective method of punishment for those who have committed heinous crimes, the justice system should not convict children and adolescents as adults because of the child 's circumstances that lead to the crime as well as the disastrous effects it causes on the mental and emotional state of the child.

Many adolescents entering detention centers and prisons may already have pre-existing mental disorders from past violence and abuse. As Lutz stated (2016), “research shows more than half of all suicides in juvenile facilities occurred while young people were held in isolation.” Prolonged isolation can be grueling on any healthy adult, and it can have a severe impact on a minor. Kalief

After touring both the Pendleton maximum security prison, and the Pendleton juvenile correctional facility I can say that while they both house inmates, the way they treat their inmates is totally different compared to one another. In Pendleton maximum facility, the staff would treat their inmates like any other criminal and hold them until it was time for them to be released, while in the Pendleton juvenile facility the staff called the inmates “students” while holding them until they believe the students are ready to behave when they are released. In this paper I want to explain how both facilities handles their inmates differently, the facilities themselves and their layouts, the rehabilitative programs available at both facilities, and how the security levels and the number of inmates assigned to the facilities effect how the treatment is implemented at each facility.

Jail in the United States descended from the 12th – century England with reeves and shires which is another word for sheriffs long. Jail is the entrance to the system. Next is Pretrial Detention which may consist of being questioned, finger printed, mug shots and long waits. Once detained for an extended period of time, the detainee may begin to face problems such as mental health, substance dependency, medical needs, and legal problems. After being detained for an extended length of time exerts pressure on the detainee to waive their rights and plead guilty. There are alternatives aside from remaining in jail such as, post the full amount to the courts, pay a set fee to a bondsman or release on

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

Jails affect the juveniles in many ways. One of the reasons it affects them is that they think that putting juveniles in jail is going to make them change but they do not change. Attitudes get worse. They start doing more crimes, get more into vandalism, and think it’s cool to be in a place like jail because they were in there once.

I found after reading this article to be very interesting, which focuses on how juvenile justice facilities are slowly starting to change their approach in detaining adolescents in detention centers. This change in philosophy can be attribute it to Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI), which advocates for keeping adolescents out of a traumatic environments, such as detention facilities. There have been several studies conducted, which revealed unreasonably high levels of stress among adolescents in detention centers, mostly due to traumatic experiences prior to being detained. "Kids who get into trouble, including committing crime and violence, are usually acting out of their own traumatic childhoods" (Finkel, 2015, para. 18). Despite,

In America there is a problem with juveniles who has mental health issues receiving the help that they need in order to progress. Mental heath problems are usually frowned upon in society. Many individuals who have the mental deficit get often closely associated with behavioral issues. The attitudes and social norms behind the way in which we handle situations of juveniles being mentally incompetent and not receiving the help they need because they get thrown in jail instead of being rehabilitated. The statistics behind the referrals of the juveniles suggests that they are not receiving the help that they need in order to progress. Based on a study taken to see how many of the juveniles was actually receiving the care needed, the results were, there are 69% of juveniles that have a mental health deficit in the juvenile detention center and has not been referred to a psychological facility, even when they fit the criteria.

Transfers decision were based on the severity of the offense. Also, transfers decision were made by invidually judge who weighed out if this young offender will endanger the public safety. Also, in some states, it was left to the prosecutors or by the legislators who decided whether to try a juvenile as adult. Another method to transfer juveniles to adult court was the judicial waiver, which is the most transfer method. About twenty-five percent of juvenile offenders are prosecuted in adult court. Juveniles tried as adult can be safety to the community, because juveniles prosecuted as adult had a higher rates of rearrests for serious felony such as robbery or assault. The negative consequences of youths being tried as an adult, they are expose

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

According to the literature review, a stressful life event is one of the most significant factors associated with depression among youth offenders in the Juvenile Vocational Training Center because of the nature of correctional facilities and the service. However, this factor is a non-modifiable factor for reducing depression.