Juvenile imprisonment. It’s not talked about very often and I don’t understand why. I think we need to raise the harshness of juvenile correctional facilities. Think about it this way young adults who visit these facilities often return. So the fear of imprisonment obviously doesn’t scare them enough to stay away. I don’t think we should just send teens off with just a slap on the wrist. I think we need to enforce stronger forms of punishment toward young convicts.
Too many teens return to adult correctional facilities after attending juvenile ones. So why? We send our youth to juvy to stop them from committing crimes, but it’s obviously not working. In the link below you can go to a very informal site that shows you some alarming statistics. They return way too often. I think if we were to use stronger forms of punishment the rates of prior juvy residents returning to adult correctional would lower. Isn’t that the main goal?
Too many teens return to adult correctional facilities after attending juvenile ones. So why? We send our youth to juvy to stop them from committing crimes, but it’s obviously not working. In the link below you can go to a very informal site that shows you some alarming statistics. They return way too often. I think if we were to use stronger forms of punishment the rates of prior juvy residents returning to adult correctional would lower. Isn’t that the main goal?