Detention Essays

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

Juvenile Detention Centers     Do you know any youth that have gotten into so much trouble that they got sent off to a juvenile detention center? These youths are ones that do not know how to act. Juvenile Detention Centers are for the youth that find themselves in trouble, but the centers also offers education, living and other needs, while also ensuring they will be at court on their date.     A day in the life of detention is very scary. When you first arrive the youth is removed from the cop

Essay Week 5 The Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative isn’t about letting juvenile offenders off the hook with just a slap on the wrist, it is about a more proactive approach that involves the community as whole. JDAI is about reducing the number of juveniles that are being detained and using that information to help make the right decisions for our youth that are considered at risk. The goals of JDAI are to reduce the number of juveniles that are in detention facilities, and to help reform

Ludicrous Punishment for a Meaningless Misdemeanor On average, three students a week at our school receive detentions for a violation of the dress code. Throughout the year, that is around one-hundred and twenty detentions. During the beginning of the year, all classes have trouble wearing the right uniform every day. The 2015-16 BFC Student/Parent Handbook states, “Detentions will be issued for Dress Code violations. If a student’s dress or personal appearance violates the Dress Code and/or the

Discussion 2_Preventative Detention 1. What is preventive detention? The pretrial detention of juvenile suspect is an important troubling aspect of the juvenile justice process. Courts are faced with the task of determining what should be done with a juvenile alleged to be delinquent pending a hearing on that issue. Preventive detention refers to the use of executive power to detain as a means of preventing future crimes. Detention in these circumstances is labeled ‘preventive’ or ‘precautionary’

Anthem’s Corrective Detention Vs. Modern Day Prisons and Jails When comparing modern day jails to Anthem’s corrective detention, it can be observed that today’s jails and prisons have strikingly more freedom than the Palace of Corrective Detention. Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, is based on a dystopian society, where the character Equality attempts to be an individual, which results him being thrown in jail. The Palace of Corrective Detention deviates from modern day prisons and jails because

Is detention effective or not? Personally in my opinion I believe it’s both effective and not effective. Detention is not something to reward a child with for being disruptive and obnoxious. Detention is for disciplinary uses; many kids think it’s okay to get detention because the teachers are so lenient and let them do things that they’re not supposed to do. A good thing about detention is it allows you to catch up on makeup work which helps you bring your grades up. Detention isn’t necessarily

different points of view. Immigration Detention: holding individuals that are suspected of entering the country illegally, or that are subject to deportation. Different perspectives regarding this controversy: Immigration detention has constantly been controversial in Canada and other countries like the U.S. With immigration rates in Canada increasing more and more with time, different opinions keep forming around this topic. From one perspective, immigration detention is a way to preserve the country's

Juvenile detention centers are purposeful ways to assist delinquent juveniles to become law abiding proactive members of society while promoting the safety of society and themselves. Yet, the way most institutions, in particular Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (CCJTDC) treat juveniles in their center has violated their essential right to be treated as humans, cast them as oppressive beings, and does not adequately facilitate their re-transition into society. While I agree that there

“Ethics is the discipline of determining good and evil and defining moral duties”. (Pollock, 2014) In this research paper I will look into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation program and the remarks of Director Brennan who claims this program was “abhorrent”. To support my conclusion, I will use facts from the report itself, and ethical models I have applied to determine if this program, and its methods were ethical. One of the first finding in the report by the Committee was that the use of the

On 10/26/15 Ms. Calhoun visited Deven at the detention center where he’s being detained. The reporter stated when interviewing the child, she witnessed his right eye was swollen with a dark mark under it. According to the reporter, Deven wrote a detailed statement of grievance that gives a detail account of an altercation between him and Officer Kennedy on 10/23/15. In the detailed statement, Deven described the incident as follow: Deven states he asked Officer Kennedy if he could go to his room

this reveals the true attitude Australia has towards asylum seekers. People who flee from countries which are oppressing them, escaping for their lives. Australia’s inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and the mandatory detention policy means that asylum seekers are locked in a detention centre until they are processed, which can take years. In recent events, Australia’s asylum seeker policies have been heavily criticised

detainees and guards and infrequent mealtimes are just some of the hardships faced by young people being placed in youth detention centres. The age of criminal responsibility demonstrates the age at which the law recognises a person as being aware and punishable for any criminal activity they may undertake. Across Australia, many young people are incarcerated daily. Youth detention centres severely overrepresent First Nations groups, can be detrimental to mental health and create a record that follows

immigration detention centers are located in the United States that are detaining men, women, families, and young children totaling to over 400,000 people. The detention facilities need to change their treatment towards the people, and give them better living conditions. The detention centers can be compared to prisons since they must wear uniforms, are guarded by security, and are surrounded by fences with razor blade barbed wire. The country is profiting off every person being held in the detention centers

The mandatory detention provision is limited to when aliens are released from custody related to specific crimes. Aliens convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude committed with five to ten years after the date of admission and convicted of a crime that sentence is one year or longer are deportable. Also, an alien who is convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude that does not come of out the same trial is deportable. Additionally, an alien that commits an aggravated felony

limit on immigration detention as other countries have, Canada does not. The European Union has a limit of 18 months before they can set unwanted immigrants free. While Canada does not have a limit, The United Nations has has called onto Canada to set one in order to prevent cases like Toure’s. However, to change the rules it is a time consuming process that would not benefit Toure at this point. The article also claims that there will be a $138 million expansion of detention centres in Vancouver

never had a chance to be successful. Most youths that are sent to detention centers are sent because how they act in the home place, school, or out on the street. But how is it possible to send a child to a detention if they are mentally ill? This article mentions how psychiatric disorders are prevalent among incarcerated Juveniles. I believe that this article gives accurate assumptions of how majority of the youth in juvenile detention centers are diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Based off the

these dreamers are immediately denied and instead held in immigration detention facilities where their human rights are violated. Migrants should not be subjected to cruel treatment, lack of medical care, and substandard living conditions while awaiting deportation or an immigration hearing. Therefore, the U.S. needs to reform policies regarding our immigration detention system including switching to Alternatives to detention programs (release on recognizance, community support, or bond, and formal

Rights Commission has raised concerns that the system of mandatory detention breaches Australia’s international human rights obligations. For instance, Australia has obligations under article 9(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to ensure that no one is subjected to arbitrary detention. However, many asylum seekers have been subjected to prolonged and indefinite detention under Australia’s mandatory detention laws. A Cambodian boy was detained for five and a half years. This

from the Ottawa Citizen. Most interesting to me was an article chronicling the current issues at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. The article, by Anne London Weinstein, states that the detention centre has longstanding systemic problems as well as atrocious conditions calling for the need of a judge to conduct a full public enquiry. While I understand the residents of the detention centre are criminals, the inhumanity with which they are treated horrified me to an extreme degree. And therefore