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| Report: End juvenile prisons |
| By The Mercury News |
| Published: 07/15/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - A state watchdog commission recommended Monday that California phase out its antiquated juvenile prisons by 2011, replacing them with regional lockups run by counties. The regional centers would hold only the most dangerous offenders under the proposal by the Little Hoover Commission. Less serious offenders would be housed at local juvenile halls. Commissioners said the state also should end its three-year experiment with combining youth and adult prisons under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Authority over youth prisons would be placed under an Office of Juvenile Justice reporting to the governor until the state ends its involvement. It will cost taxpayers $378 million next year to care for the state's 1,500 juvenile inmates, the panel said in a report to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders. The report also suggests that the youth prisons do little in the way of rehabilitation, saying three of four freed young offenders commit new crimes within three years. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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The judicial system needs to close down the Juvenile Prisons. Children should not be locked up because they are still growing and learning the right and wrong. Maybe we as parents are to blame because we have not taught them the right and wrong. Parents or legal guardians should be responsible for their actions. Children belong with their parents. They are too young to be in jail and they have not matured to know the right and wrong. They learn all the wrong from today's technology and try to copy what they see? If they were to do research about juveniles in the past they never had a high population of juveniles. Discipline should be at home with a law that protects them from abuse. Like maybe, restricting them from going out on the weekends. The punishment should be something relating to the crime that they did, like, grafitti, have them paint the public restrooms or bus stops something. If they stole something somewhere, then, have them clean up the place with supervision. Also, they should also attend classes or counseling about life. The right and wrong. They should also get involved with community service. Children do not belong in prison, they belong with their family. All adoption or foster should be screened carefully. Instead of Juvenile officers they should hire supervisors/counselors or after school programs for children who have disciplinary problems. Then allow them to go home before night time. Also, Curfew hours for minors should be at 8p.m. and not 10p.m. that is why we have so many problems. Sgt.M.S. Lizama, Guam DOC