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Mental Health Issues In Juvenile Detention Centers

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How should mental health be handled in juvenile detention centers? How important is mental health in Juvenile Detention Center? Should mental health be addressed in juvenile detention centers? How should mental health be addressed? Is it important for correction officers to be aware of mental health issues? As a corrections officer at South Regional Ohio Juvenile Detention Center, I honestly don’t know how to answer the questions above. I will give my opinion before I start my research and then I’ll give you my personally opinion after my research. As a corrections officer I think it would be very important to address any mental health problem within a juvenile. Addressing any mental health problems allows facility and juveniles create …show more content…

Being able to identify mental health issues and addressing them can help juveniles stay out of the adult justice system. Most of the time mental health issues that aren't addressed can lead to juvenile getting in trouble in their adulthood. It’s sad to think this has happened for years. The fact that juvenile detention center could have started screening for mental health issues year and addressed the juvenile needs right way could have kept a lot of children from growing up and going to jail or prison. We also need to address they fact that once this juvenile get out of detention are they going to be able to get the correct help they need? I feel juvenile courts should make it where juvenile that come into the detention center to receive help should also get help outside of the detention center. It does detention centers no good to help juveniles if they get released and they don’t have the correct help they need. Juvenile are more likely to get in trouble again if they can’t receive the help in the inside and outside of the bars. According to the “Effects on Incarceration on Mental Health” juvenile lack support outside of the detention centers. To me this is sad to hear. Juvenile should receive as much help as possible because one day these juveniles will grow up and run this …show more content…

If officers and teachers were aware of mental health issues and could address them at a young age they could change a child’s life. I can personally say after screening a juvenile a few times at the South Regional Ohio Juvenile Detention Center it honestly helps the officer know how to act with a juvenile and how to treat them. It makes the center a better place and makes me feel like a better person because I know how to work with the juvenile to meet their

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Juveniles that go through the rehabilitation process will be able to have a clean record after they reach 18, whereas the exact opposite if they went through the adult justice system. Stevenson feels that, “We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken.” (289) This quote represents the treatment towards juveniles in prison and how the potential of these children is wasted. The goal of rehabilitation is to help the youth understand the consequences of their actions and learn how to make better choices in the

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The juvenile system is a ¨far cry¨ from justice (Estudillo). There have been many cases where minors are getting away with crimes that if they were tried as adults then they would pay the consequences for their crime. No amount of rehabilitation will help the minors, they will continue to do crimes as soon as they get out of the juvenile system. People should be worried about this issue because people of this world cannot let crimes go without the proper punishment. The victim's family will feel that they were treated the way that they should have been.

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In order to eliminate crime, we must recognize the negligence that lies within the juvenile prison system. These major criminals often started out in the juvenile system, so if they receive the help they need as teenagers, we can curb the negative behavior and diminish

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The purpose of the juvenile system is to focus on the reasons for their behavior rather than focusing on the being guilty or innocent, like how the adult court system works. Having community based restorative justice is one of the main targets the system should focus on with juveniles. Community based restorative justice focuses on the harm that was caused and what needs to happen in order to be better. I also believe that getting juveniles involved in community service will only do good for the kids as well. Another statement mentioned in the article “Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults Is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful” they write, “When we lock up young people, they are more likely to be exposed to extreme violence, fall prey to abuse, and suffer from illness.

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Panic and fear has created harsh drug policies that are a detriment to society and those people they are enforced upon. Everyone should be given a second chance and this applies especially to juveniles. Although legally a juvenile becomes an adult at 18 studies have shown that the human brain does not fully develop until the age of 21. Because juveniles are less developed and historically make poor decisions because of lack of wisdom and experience they should not be locked away, but rather mentored and guided on the proper path. Such as a well structured home and community would develop a child to grow into a functioning member of society so too should the juvenile justice system.

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Have you ever thought a about what actually goes on in Juvenile Detention Centers? How the young teens are treated by the guards and other cell mates? If you really think about it, most people in this generation don’t understand how bad it is getting. Being a teen doesn’t mean you are an adult and every teen makes mistakes. From the point of view of the young prisoners in those detention centers, when you get in trouble or you make a mistake in the “outside world” people get over it.

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Jade Mimoso 9/10/15 Argumentative Essay 1 Do you think that Juvenile Justice Centers are beneficial for troubled teens? Well, they actually aren’t beneficial at all. I don’t think that they are beneficial because, some centers don’t help the troubled teens get on track, the center doesn’t have the same educational standards as regular schooling, and most of the kids that get out are still troubled.

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