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Children As Convicts - USA Juvenile Detention

OFFENDERS GROW UP WHILE LOCKED UP

Between the ages of 9 and 15, Benjamin Eagle Dutchie was convicted of nine felonies and 30 misdemeanors, including theft, cruelty to animals, robbery, vehicle burglary, attempted automobile theft, joyriding and receiving stolen property.
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Detention Juvenile USA Convicts Children

What they should be doing is getting real therapists in these juvenile detention facilities to try and reform these kids before they get to the point of being adult criminals. Our society is willing to just keep putting them in jail and call it reform. But in jail, you have to reform on your own, no one holds your hand. I think the money should go into the juvenile system and I also think that saving them at that point is how your going to reduce crime.

Children As Convicts - USA Juvenile Detention History & Civil Business Politics

Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America

The U.S. Locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. Ref. Source 5

Detention Juvenile USA Convicts Children

Juvenile offenders probably more criminal to begin with

It's a long-simmering debate in juvenile justice: Do young offenders become worse because of their experience with the justice system, or are they somehow different than people who don't have their first criminal conviction until later in life? A longitudinal study covering 931 people from birth to age 38 finds juvenile offenders are probably more criminal to begin with. Ref. Source 8p.