On the 15th
of October the New York Times reported about the juveniles being jailed
in adult prisons. They reported that
this practice of confining juveniles in adult jails and prison is
counterproductive and inhumane. Juveniles that are locked up with adults are at
more of a risk to be raped, battered or driven to suicide than those juveniles
in the juveniles lock up. Also the trauma of the time done in adult lock up
makes it so that the juveniles are more likely to return home damaged which
makes them likely to commit violent crimes and end up back in jail or prison.
By keeping the juveniles in the juvenile justice systems it will get the kids
counseling and mental health services that will benefit then rather than
destroy them as would the adult justice system. Prison officials say that they
use solitary confinement to isolate inmates who
need protection or could be dangerous to others which can help those juveniles
that need protection from the adult inmates. Statistics show that tens
of thousands of young people each year are charged as adults even for
nonviolent offenses and property crimes that do not permit adult time. A new
study by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties
Union displays the extended isolation can lead to mental illness and other
damage among emotionally immature young people.
This can be affiliated with the world because by imprisoning the young
children with the adults it creates monsters to just clog up the prison system.
By keeping the juveniles in the juvenile justice systems will help rehabilitate
the young and cut down on crimes in the future. The world needs to work on the
youth to make a different and by putting the time and effort in the young
criminal will eliminate the adult criminal.
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