Pros And Cons Of Juvenile Detention Centers

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. At the age they are at, it is just like getting grounded for a week and that’s it. However, in the world of the Juvenile Detention Centers, if you make a mistake, you will may get beaten up by other cell mates. In 2013 eighty-six percent of the juvenile residents

Most of these assaults are not by other cell mates, they are by staff members working at that facility and twenty percent of those victimized by the men and women protecting and counseling them have said that they have been violated on more than ten occasions. The highest incidence of staff sexual misconduct occurred in Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia and Illinois, while other states like New York, Massachusetts and Delaware, reported no abuse. At the Paulding Regional Youth Detention Center in Georgia and the Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility in Ohio, one in every three young teens surveyed said they'd suffered sexual abuse at the hands of staff members. From that survey, we also found out that there are roughly 70,000 young teens in the country's juvenile detention facilities, thousands of them sixteen years old or younger. The report gives some insight into how staff members victimize the teens under their care and supervision. In the majority of cases, the survey found that staff members establish a personal relationship with the inmate first by sharing details of their personal lives, sharing pictures, or giving gifts. The report also indicated that one instance of abuse also usually leads to

As many as 80 percent of the girls in some states’ juvenile justice systems have a history of sexual or physical abuse, according to a report released Thursday. Girls referred to the juvenile justice system who are disproportionately impoverished African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans have a thirty-one percent chance of being sexually abused, compared to seven percent of boys in the system. The people who work in the Woman’s Rights Program have come in and said that the girls are not okay and that something needs to be done about it. Many people are now getting to the point of protesting in other countries to stop the abuse and sexual assault from the staff. The boys and girls at these Juvenile Detention centers and the inmates in these facilities are still people that need a course to learn that, however they got into that place is really wrong, but to teach it in a abusive way of sexual assault is not okay and needs to be changed