This video shows how in just the justice system is for people who are still not even old enough to have a driver's license. Juvenile's need help getting through life's ordeals and by labeling them for crimes they commit like the videos had stated can cause factors in which success is going to be close to impossible for the juveniles. It also was mentioned many times that mostly in a race sense it seems that African Americans juveniles are targeted even for some of the non violent crimes that exists in this world. By sending juvenile's through the justice system when It mainly deals with them having some mood disorders this may cause more problem's for their lives such as depression, and anxiety. With causes more problems this can cause them to become a repeated offender angry at the justice system which may cause these young ones to commit a violent act making them part of the chronic offenders which may end this person in a adult prison. The justice system easy way is to punish the kids for crimes they commit but if the person could be changed then we may save this juveniles from becoming a enemy of society and of themselves. Eagle001
I agree when you say that juveniles need help getting through life's hardships and ordeals instead of jumping to any chance to label them for the crimes they commit. It's scary thinking about having our own children grow up in an education system like the one displayed in the video. Not every child is well-taught at home and so teachers and school administration are in some cases all these children have. A teacher should be able to handle situations such as a cuss word, a small altercation, and things of the like. I do not understand the reason for calling outside forces for these issues. If a teacher can't handle such issues, I don't think they should be fit for the job. School is a place to learn and not be sent into the juvenile justice system for such little things. The video explained how many of the juveniles sent into the system struggle with mental disorders, ADHD for example. Do we think the system is going to help them? Once entered, their chances of getting help when out are slim to none. The video said that those who leave the system and try to get treatment are turned down for fear of being disruptive and for negative effects on staff and kids. It's terrifying. behappy001
I agree with the fact that you said locking younger offenders in prisons causes mental and mood disorders. Lots of kids who are involved in the Juvenile Justice System already have some kind of mental disorder. When they are places in things like solitary confinement, these mental disorders just get worse. Prison is not the place for young juvenile offenders. Instead of incarcerating juveniles, we should be offering them help in order to correct their behavior. Bry001
I agree that juveniles need help with their underlying issues before simply locking them up. 70% of children are already suffering from mental issues so locking them up is not solving the problem it is only making the problem worse. Once they are incarcerated the chance that they will receive the help they need is slim. Upon their release no one wants to help them either because they are labeled as a problem or disturbance because of their involvement with the Juvenile Justice System. We as a country are failing our children by treating them like criminals for petty offenses that should not warrant involving law enforcement. Kids should be able to learn in school not be worried if today is the day they will be arrested. We are ensuring the failure of our children by arresting and incarcerating them at these alarming rates. This issue needs to be resolved by first trying to get to the underlying issue the juvenile is dealing with not just locking them away and adding to their feelings of hopelessness. If not addressed we are only going to continue to produce more criminals not rehabilitate children who are worth it and who deserve it. mommy001
In the video, the instructor mentioned recidivism. This is one of the biggest problems that the court systems and juvenile/prison facilities have to deal with today, is recidivism. This is when an offender relapses back into a life of delinquent behavior after being previously caught for another deviant act. The Juvenile Justice Initiative states that America is the only nation that has a distinguished age limit to the criminal (adult) court system. This required age used to be eighteen years old across the nation, but today, kids can be tried as adults at the age of thirteen or fourteen. An offender that falls under the required age is expected to be tried in juvenile court. This is a system that is more focused on preventing recidivism and rehabilitation rather than locking them up with the big dogs in prison. In order to achieve this goal set by the courts and juvenile facilities, they must both cooperate to help young offenders get involved in specialized programs and services. These types of programs should be designed to have a positive influence on offenders and deter them away from delinquency. Instead of locking kids up in prison, we should look to simply just help them and get them on the right track before it is too late. Like the video said, "kids can be turned around and are not able to commit criminal acts" so we should not be punishing them as such. Bry001
I agree that the biggest problems these prisons fae is recidivism. As this video shows the person goes though the system their beaten down by the system and struggle as their status becames the act that was commited. I agree also that a positive influence is the most powerful tool that we can do for people that have to go through the adult prisons deliquents need a way to better their lives special programs will help. Eagle001
I also agree that recidivism is one of the major problems with our justice system. The way that JDC punished the children detained in it's system (such as psychotropic drugs and solitary confinement) makes these children more violent when they are released, which is unfortunate since most of the children in JDC custody are not in their custody for status offence violations, NOT violent crimes. Another problem that I realized because of this video is that 60% of the children that committed suicide while in JDC custody were subject to solitary confinement. This is another point that proves that solitary confinement hurts children a lot more than it could ever help them. EKT001
We need to get programs in the prisons help these kids go bacl to the community feeling like they can go get a job and feel good about there selfs then throwing them in a hole hoping that will work because your just making them crazy to do more crime or so crazy they cant work but they still need to be puinsh them but not get to crazy but kid should be be killing there selfs.cowboys001
"Claustrophobic, cold, and YOUNG." These are terms that the juveniles in this video use to describe their time locked in solitary confinement. According to this video 54,000 children are arrested each night, resulting in 8 billion dollars a year for incarceration. Thirty out of the fifty states have no age limit for crime. Can you imagine being 7 years old, like Zion in the video, feeling frustrated in bad because of the discipline he faces from teachers and the Juvenile Justice System? At 7 year old, the brain is not fully developed and to be charged as an adult for minor offenses is ludicrous. The video gave examples of minor deviant acts that children committed and were sent to juvenile facilities for. For example, a child spending 6 nights in Juvenile Detention for throwing skittles at another classmate and cussing in the parking lot. How are children supposed to learn from their mistakes if their childhood and identity are taken away from them at such a young age? Most of the juveniles in these facilities have a history of trauma and 92% of them are on psychotropic drugs. They are given these drugs at such a young age, how do we expect these same children to act in their teens and early adulthood without them? They simply won't be able to be without them; it's a never ending cycle. Another factor in this is solitary confinement. Dr. Grassian mentioned in the video that, "once in solitary confinement, they get worse and never come back." In other words, they are lost and disturbed. How can we sit back and let that happen? According to Cory Booker. there are 60% of suicide victims while in solitary confinement. Childhood is a time to find your identity and LIVE. How can we allow for children to be placed in juvenile facilities for things such as a cuss word, a push, or skipping a class? Even those who have a good reason to be placed in these facilities enter the system in hopes it will help them, yet they are being picked apart and losing their identities without any way in their minds of gaining that back. Why can't we come up with a system to help these young children survive in this society? Not everyone is raised in loving, idolized households, some need an extra push and pushing them into the juvenile justice system is not the key. We need to analyze the true issue and educate ourselves and others on how to stop this epidemic. Children shouldn't fear going to school and parents shouldn't fear sending them. Teachers and school administration need new policies to handle light situations in school instead of ruining innocent lives. behappy001
The video Prison Kids an Informed View was very disturbing to view. The way children are being handled by the current Juvenile Justice System is very appalling. 54,000 children arrested in this country on any given night shows how much we as a country are failing our children. Little 7 year old Zion had over 40 write ups and hadn't even gotten out of primary school. Imagine the negative labels already placed upon this little boy who has a still developing brain. The United States incarcerates children at a higher rate than any other nation. The fact that most of these children are minorities shows the racial disparity in the Juvenile Justice System is very rampant. Savanah who was incarcerated at age 14 said she was in more physical altercations while incarcerated than when she was out in society. Placed in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, what affect do we expect this to have on a child. 70% of kids in the Juvenile Justice System are afflicted with mental issues and confining them for 23 hours only worsens the issues they are suffering from. Then they are cutting themselves and becoming depressed. Solitary confinement has the potential to harm adults so the harm it causes children is so very detrimental. Allen who was incarcerated at age 15 said that solitary confinement caused more aggression inside of him. Showing that solitary confinement with children only makes the problem worse not better. The Juvenile Justice System is supposed to be about rehabilitation and is instead focusing on punishment. 92% of children incarcerated are receiving powerful psychotropic drugs which are altering brain functions in their still developing brains. Add that to the solitary confinement and the results on brain development are not promising. If we don't start treating the underlying causes that children are being incarcerated for we will not help these kids. The fact that 30 out of 50 states in this country have no minimum age to charge a child with a crime is also insane. How do you justify charging a child for a crime for a childlike act that a simple reprimand could handle. Placing a child in incarceration for swearing or throwing skittles at a peer. The system is only creating more criminals not solving any problems. The entire system as well as the school system needs to be overhauled if our children have any hope of having a successful life. The way children are treated in this country is causing them to give up on school and themselves and that is very sad. Children's lives are being ruined for these little petty offenses in school and what a horrible message we are sending to the children in our country. The cards are already being stacked against so many children ensuring failure for these children. School should be a place children are thriving and feel cared for and with the racial disparity in our school system that is clearly not happening in our current school system. Getting to the root of the problems these young children are facing should be the focus not locking them up. mommy001
I agree, our country is not doing a good job at giving all children equal opportunities in school. Zion was already labelled deviant simply because he was written up in his younger grades. Teachers need to have a more open mind when it comes to kids with mental disabilities and make sure they have just as many opportunities as any other kid. Jah001
I agree, we are prescribing these juveniles with all these drugs and medications that they will have to rely on for the rest of their lives. By putting these kids in solitary confinement, we are taking away the socialization part of the juvenile brain developing. And then we ask ourselves why these kids who have been locked up are leaving not any better or even worse then they were when they were there. We need REHABILITATION and not all of this punishment that we are relying on to correct bad behavior. Broncos001
The video Prison Kids shows how putting juveniles in jails can potentially create a criminal, rather than rehabilitating the juveniles deviant behavior. As early as seven years old kids are be labelled and are constantly given referrals which can be put on the child's permanent school record. Some states do not have a minimum age for some crimes, this can cause children to be taken to prison for committing "adult" crimes. This situation is outrageous because children are not fully developed. Once kids are taken to juvenile jails, they tend to adapt to the label that has been given to them. The juveniles start getting in more trouble at the jails and start participating in deviant criminal behaviors. These facilities punish the juveniles by sending them into solitary confinement for twenty three hours at a time. Solitary confinement is supposed to help the juvenile think about what they did wrong. However, solitary confinement simply makes the kids feel crazy. More solitary confinement correlates with bad behavior. Also, it was found that many kids are on anti-psychotic drugs, making it a very dangerous place having 92% of the juveniles on drugs they have never been around. Many kids in juvenile facilities have ptsd due to violent events. Juvenile jails takes away the childhood from kids, causing them to grow up too fast and pursue a criminal lifestyle.
I agree with you, the system in a way does not help these juveniles and the hopes for their futures. The system puts a label on them and makes their future seem so distant. It's so wrong that in some states there is no age limit on charging someone with a crime. How can a 5 year old someone who is not even developed mentally or physically all the way be locked up for all of his "wonder years". Solitary does nothing good for these kids, but drive them insane and push them further into the system. -dicaprio001
I think this video does make a great point at how the current juvenile justice system can make things worse and not help children rehabilitate and also make them into more of a criminal than they were before. They completely diminish the future of these kids and don't give them the chance to realize what they did was wrong and help them get better outside of a jail cell or solitary confinement. Bike001
This video raised some alarming points. When the juvenile justice system swung from being rehabilitative to punitive because of the public’s increased fears of “juvenile super predators” in the mid 1990’s, it started to develop a lot of problems that have since become the focus of many news outlets today. There are 33 states in our country that do not have a minimum age required to be charged with a crime. This statistic alarms me. This means that children as young as six or seven could potentially be charged with a serious crime like battery, and that is just not right. A person’s brain is developing well into their twenty’s, and it is changing rapidly while they are school age, so how can we hold these young children accountable for something that they may not know, or understand yet, is wrong? Another alarming statistic that resonated with me from this video is that at one point in the Juvenile Detention Center that Alan was held in, 92% of the children detained there were on psychotropic drugs, sometimes at the max dose. This, when paired with the frequent use of solitary confinement in these facilities, is a recipe for disaster. Both the use of these drugs and the use of solitary confinement have been shown to make children more violent when they get out of these detention centers. Which will lead to more violent children being released from these facilities, which is very unfortunate since the majority of children that are being held in these facilities are in there for status offense violations, rather than violent crimes. Since 70% of the children in Juvenile Detention Centers across the country struggle with some form of mental illness, this can, and does, have disastrous consequences. Once these children get out of these detention centers, they may not be able to receive treatment for their mental illnesses from traditional institutions because they have been labeled “delinquent.” The last statistic that really resonated with me is that, nationally, 60% of children who commit suicide while in JDC custody had been subject to solitary confinement. The juvenile justice system was created with the intent to rehabilitate troubled children, not punish them in a way that will make them more violent when they are released, or make them take their own lives. EKT001
This was a very good video with lots of info to go with it maybe school are getting more violent maybe kids are bring there problems outside of school to school maybe thats why there putting more cops in schools but i dont think we need to handle school problems with the law enforcement because it don't take but couple of tickets and your marked for ever labeled sometimes that makes you feel like you dont belong there and want to give up so your pushed up out so you end up in jail or prison sometimes not just end up getting a normall job which noting wrong with that but they dont get a fair chance at school and a bigger better job.I think its crazy 30 out of 50 states dont have a minimum age to charge a child you cant give little kids 50 years in prison for sometimes they problem had no idea they were doing it.I think that these petty crimes kids should be put in a little easier area and rehabilitate them teach them show them skills and that there not pos and still can fit in the normal world with little punishment to to show them that they cant go stealing and stuff because i dont care your back ground 90 percent of people know wrong from right.Now for kids that rape and murder i dont care where or who color or what you cant just kill someone or rape them.The people that really dont know the difference then should be put in some type of mental hospital.But you have to punish them you cant just feel bad because they grew up bad parents they knew killing was not right so yes they should be punished locked up but being so young i think we should give them some type of help.WE need to punish kids with teaching or rehbiliton at the sametime without given them a recored because they will only fellow them make things harder and if anything add more more kids to the system then there already is.cowboys001
This video shows the flaws in the juvenile delinquency justice system. The United States incarcerates more juveniles than any other county in the world, and many of them are locked up for minor status offence such as skipping school. The major problem of the system is that there is not enough rehabilitation and it is more focused on punishment. When these kids get in trouble in prison they are sent to solitary confinement. One kid in the video, Allen, spent over 300 day of a year in solitary confinement. He said that his time in solitary confinement only made his aggression worse. Many of these offenders already have mental illnesses such as ADHD, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and even PTSD. In solitary confinement they basically start to go crazy. They talk to them selves and even draw all over the walls of their cells. To correct this detention centers will prescribe psychotropic drugs that completely change their personality. Far to often they are prescribed the maximum amount. Once these kids are released that have some time lost two to three years of their life, taking away their child hood. Recidivism rates for juvenile are near 75% within 2 to 3 years or release. How ever there is hope. Judge Linda has started a program that helps to get kid help and not incarceration, with the goal of treating underlying causes such as mental illnesses. There is also a special school for kids like Zion where troubled kids are sent to help with behavioral issues. They spend time with counselors that try to find out why the kids are acting out and find a way to help them. 7point62001
I completely agree with you. The system is supposed to be more focused on rehabilitation, yet it leans toward punishment more than anything. It is the easy way out. With certain kids who should not have been locked up in the first place, they would have outburst and would be sent to solitary confinement. This is so much more damaging than treating them properly. Some juveniles need to have a psych consult and be taken care of properly, not just pumped with drugs because that will ruin a person. agentp001
After watching this episode, I found many points made over the course very interesting and some really surprised me. It defiantly changed the way I look at the Juvenile Justice System and how much room for change their actually is. One fact is that some sates do not have a minimal age for getting arrested and charged. How can we arrest and charge a 3 year old if they were to do something? I find that completely ridiculous. Another fact that I found stuck out to me is that majority of kids locked up didn't even commit violent crimes. IN fact, a lot of them occurred in school. A kid is now locked up and arrested for spitting or hitting another kid on the playground. Whats next? Arresting a kid for cheating on a test or taking too long in the bathroom? There are so many more beneficial ways to correct bad behavior at school than bringing a police officer to get involved. Start more programs for kids misbehaving that are not focused on punishing and more on finding the main cause of the deviant behavior. When we arrest these kids, they are given the title as deviant and that ruins and distorts the way they are scene by classmates, and family members. Parents give up, or they lose friends. eventually causing them to drop out and join gangs. That is how a kid hitting someone at school turns into a teenager shooting someone over nothing due to gang affiliation. It is all apart of one. great, big slippery slope. Another part that stood out to me was the fact that we are making these kids spend so much time in solitary confinement while they are locked up, and we are not realizing all of the psychological damage it does to these kids. We are talking about long term damage that affects the rest of their lives due to misbehaving in jail. Another point that was made was that 92% of kids that were locked up with Alan were prescribed Anti-Psychotic drugs for disorders they gave gained. When we do finally let these kids out of prison, a lot of them are affected by PTSD and have to live with it for the rest of their lives. We take away these kids childhoods and lock them up, then when we let them out, we expect them to be "a new person" when we provided little to no guidance to help rehabilitate them. We are charging these kids as adults and ruining their future even more. We can not assume that when a child or teenager commits a crime, that they thought that crime out as seriously as an adult would. A child or teenager does not think the same way as an adult, therefore we should not be charging them as adults. Broncos001
I found this video very interesting and in some ways appalling. The way we treat juveniles in the justice system is in some ways wrong. One thing that was really shocking to me is in Florida one of the 30/50 states there is no age limit on arresting and charging a juvenile. How can we lock someone up who is only 5 years old? Our brains are not even fully developed yet. How can someone so young be aware of what they are actually doing. Most of the kids in the Justice System suffer from behavioral problems.Zion for example has major anxiety and ADHD. One of the things we have to remember is that people with behavioral or mental disorders have to be approached in different ways than others who don't suffer from those conditions. And locking those kids up is going to make things worse for them, how are they going to get better? Especially if we are locking these kids up in solitary confinement. Even if the kids didn't have any behavioral or mental problems before solitary is going to create those problems. Solitary effects the mental state of juveniles and only creates bigger problems. It's going to push these juveniles into a life of more crime and get pushed into being adult criminals, Most of them will never get out of the system. Isn't the system suppose to help rehabilitate people rather than keep them in? Juveniles are being locked up for status offenses like skipping school. Your going to lock a kid up for skipping school? How do you know there aren't outside factors that are keeping that kid from going to school. A lot of juveniles live in poverty. Most children in America do live in poverty. It's harder for them to obtain the means to stay and school. And by kicking them out of school, where do you think they are going to go? They are going to be out on the streets getting involved in crime. Joining gangs to feel like they are a apart of something. Juveniles going gangs for many reasons and that's one of them, to feel apart of something to feel important. Because they feel as if no one cares for them. 92% of all juveniles locked up are on anti-psychotic drugs, 60% of kids end up committing suicide. These numbers are outrageous. And because juveniles have mental or behavioral health problems once they get out they are going to need additional help. But the problem is that most mental health facilities won't help them because they have been incarcerated. Yet again labels are being put on these juveniles at such a young age most of them have no future because of something small they did as a juvenile. Mental health is a huge problem not only in juveniles about across the board in this country. Yet again another problem in the system is the bias against people of color. 81% of the arrests are African Americans when they only make up 41% of the population in Jefferson Parish Public High School. In no way is that right. The problem is the Criminal Justice System is built on white, wealthy, educated people who probably cannot even see from a different side of life. African American juveniles are 2x more likely to be arrested and locked up before white juveniles, and even as adults. The world is full of labels upon labels that need to be lifted. Since 2012 racial disparity has gone up. When are we going to stop blaming an entire race for everything when it's only a few some who are actually criminals. It's really like that with any race if we are being honest. But it's 2016 when are we going to leave race out of things and just bring justice to those who deserve it. Not blame people just because the color of their skin. The long term affect of the juvenile justice system just makes kids want to give up and not even try to change their paths because the labels that have been thrown on them. There are many things wrong with the system that need to be changed, cannot happen overnight. But as a new generation I think we've got the right idea and can start now. -dicaprio001
This video shows how even from such a young age a kid can be caught up in the criminal justice system. Things such as poverty, mental illness, and how they are doing in school can affect how they turn out. This is a perfect example of how the school to prison pipeline works. Punishing a kid for something they did at school with arresting them is not going to help. THis will ultimately end up labeling the child which will then make them commit even more delinquent acts. Labeling theory is definitely at play here. The kids mother is trying so hard to fight that label and have him be "normal". Shes afraid that he will become an adult criminal and she doesnt want to see her kid grow up to be that. The way the school punishes children with out of school suspensions and the police is making the problem worse. Especially when it is for stupid things like making a gun shape out of a pop tart. A maximum punishment for a very very minor infraction sounds like a very good deterrent on paper but in the real world humans just don't behave like that. This video did a great job showing a real life story on how a kids life can be changed by becoming a part of the criminal justice system and I would recommend it to anybody pursuing a criminal justice degree.
This video shows how are juvenile justice system can be so messed up. There is a lot of kids out there with mental problems that need to be addressed and delt with properly but these zero tolerance and no chance policies don't allow kids to have a chance to be rehabilitated. The worst part is a big percentage of the time it's the poor and minority groups that are targeted and they can't afford a good lawyer to defend their children in juvenile court. There has been reports of kids being thrown in the juvenile justice system for things like throwing skittles at a classmate and these kids might have mental issues and they don't even give them a chance to learn what they did was bad without throwing them in the system for something as petty as that. It's even worse that when they go to juvenile jail they are a lot of the time just given a bunch of drugs and thrown in solitary confinement to boil and get worse. They literally just throw these kids in a room and forget about them for 23 hours of the day and ignore any problems they might have. This is no way to treat a child and can definitely make things worse than they were before. They are literally just ignoring all of these kids problems and locking them in a little room. There needs to be a big change in our juvenile justice system to help rehabilitate these kids instead of just throwing them in the system and forgetting about them and the problems they might have. Bike001
This video is very enlightening. There was a phrase during the end that said "Juvenile Justice System is suppose to rehabilitate kids" yet there are a few kids in this video who after being sent to juvenile prison, they were wavered up to the adult prison. If the goal is to rehabilitate, then that should be the only goal. There are a lot of kids who are put into juvenile prison for some of the smallest offenses, and they are sitting next to kids who have done much much worse. Kids are rotated over and over from the juvenile facilities to the adult jails. The recidivism rates for adults that were in juvenile facilities has spiked and is nearly 3/4 the percentage of people who keep going back to prison. Savannah had requested at the age of 19 for an early release in order to attend a program that would help her with college after getting out. She was denied her request. If the goal really was to rehabilitate, situations like this would have been handled differently and Savannah might have gotten her chance. So many kids are put through the system, and are damaged because of it. It all cycles back to the Preschool to Prison pipeline. Children who misbehave in school at younger ages, and are treated poorly by cops when the school calls them in, are more likely to become juveniles and criminals later in life. It is actually damaging children who, with the proper guidance, would have been better off and not have turned to the Preschool to Prison pipeline. It all starts at a young age, with how us, as adults, set an example for our young people. agentp001
I agree with you on this because mostly all African Americans might go to jail for something wrong like fighting or selling drugs. And the kids spend 23 hours in solitary confinement and only 1 hour of recreation time. And when they get out they get even worse with their health issues. Golfer001
Its just weird that all of the African Americans do this and have to spend 23 hours in solitary confinement. 92 % of the solitary confinement kids have to take some kind of psychotropic drug to make them better when they have ADHD or PTSD. Some of the kids in solitary confinement have lose it and go crazy or just write on the wall to make them feel better while incarcerated. Zion is only 7 years old and he has been written up so man times and has kicked a teacher out of anger and his mom thinks he might get arrested. And some states' you can get arrested at 10 years and younger. Golfer001
This video shows how in just the justice system is for people who are still not even old enough to have a driver's license. Juvenile's need help getting through life's ordeals and by labeling them for crimes they commit like the videos had stated can cause factors in which success is going to be close to impossible for the juveniles. It also was mentioned many times that mostly in a race sense it seems that African Americans juveniles are targeted even for some of the non violent crimes that exists in this world. By sending juvenile's through the justice system when It mainly deals with them having some mood disorders this may cause more problem's for their lives such as depression, and anxiety. With causes more problems this can cause them to become a repeated offender angry at the justice system which may cause these young ones to commit a violent act making them part of the chronic offenders which may end this person in a adult prison. The justice system easy way is to punish the kids for crimes they commit but if the person could be changed then we may save this juveniles from becoming a enemy of society and of themselves. Eagle001
ReplyDeleteI agree when you say that juveniles need help getting through life's hardships and ordeals instead of jumping to any chance to label them for the crimes they commit. It's scary thinking about having our own children grow up in an education system like the one displayed in the video. Not every child is well-taught at home and so teachers and school administration are in some cases all these children have. A teacher should be able to handle situations such as a cuss word, a small altercation, and things of the like. I do not understand the reason for calling outside forces for these issues. If a teacher can't handle such issues, I don't think they should be fit for the job. School is a place to learn and not be sent into the juvenile justice system for such little things. The video explained how many of the juveniles sent into the system struggle with mental disorders, ADHD for example. Do we think the system is going to help them? Once entered, their chances of getting help when out are slim to none. The video said that those who leave the system and try to get treatment are turned down for fear of being disruptive and for negative effects on staff and kids. It's terrifying. behappy001
DeleteI agree with the fact that you said locking younger offenders in prisons causes mental and mood disorders. Lots of kids who are involved in the Juvenile Justice System already have some kind of mental disorder. When they are places in things like solitary confinement, these mental disorders just get worse. Prison is not the place for young juvenile offenders. Instead of incarcerating juveniles, we should be offering them help in order to correct their behavior. Bry001
DeleteI agree that juveniles need help with their underlying issues before simply locking them up. 70% of children are already suffering from mental issues so locking them up is not solving the problem it is only making the problem worse. Once they are incarcerated the chance that they will receive the help they need is slim. Upon their release no one wants to help them either because they are labeled as a problem or disturbance because of their involvement with the Juvenile Justice System. We as a country are failing our children by treating them like criminals for petty offenses that should not warrant involving law enforcement. Kids should be able to learn in school not be worried if today is the day they will be arrested. We are ensuring the failure of our children by arresting and incarcerating them at these alarming rates. This issue needs to be resolved by first trying to get to the underlying issue the juvenile is dealing with not just locking them away and adding to their feelings of hopelessness. If not addressed we are only going to continue to produce more criminals not rehabilitate children who are worth it and who deserve it. mommy001
DeleteIn the video, the instructor mentioned recidivism. This is one of the biggest problems that the court systems and juvenile/prison facilities have to deal with today, is recidivism. This is when an offender relapses back into a life of delinquent behavior after being previously caught for another deviant act. The Juvenile Justice Initiative states that America is the only nation that has a distinguished age limit to the criminal (adult) court system. This required age used to be eighteen years old across the nation, but today, kids can be tried as adults at the age of thirteen or fourteen. An offender that falls under the required age is expected to be tried in juvenile court. This is a system that is more focused on preventing recidivism and rehabilitation rather than locking them up with the big dogs in prison. In order to achieve this goal set by the courts and juvenile facilities, they must both cooperate to help young offenders get involved in specialized programs and services. These types of programs should be designed to have a positive influence on offenders and deter them away from delinquency. Instead of locking kids up in prison, we should look to simply just help them and get them on the right track before it is too late. Like the video said, "kids can be turned around and are not able to commit criminal acts" so we should not be punishing them as such. Bry001
ReplyDeleteI agree that the biggest problems these prisons fae is recidivism. As this video shows the person goes though the system their beaten down by the system and struggle as their status becames the act that was commited. I agree also that a positive influence is the most powerful tool that we can do for people that have to go through the adult prisons deliquents need a way to better their lives special programs will help. Eagle001
DeleteI also agree that recidivism is one of the major problems with our justice system. The way that JDC punished the children detained in it's system (such as psychotropic drugs and solitary confinement) makes these children more violent when they are released, which is unfortunate since most of the children in JDC custody are not in their custody for status offence violations, NOT violent crimes. Another problem that I realized because of this video is that 60% of the children that committed suicide while in JDC custody were subject to solitary confinement. This is another point that proves that solitary confinement hurts children a lot more than it could ever help them. EKT001
DeleteWe need to get programs in the prisons help these kids go bacl to the community feeling like they can go get a job and feel good about there selfs then throwing them in a hole hoping that will work because your just making them crazy to do more crime or so crazy they cant work but they still need to be puinsh them but not get to crazy but kid should be be killing there selfs.cowboys001
Delete"Claustrophobic, cold, and YOUNG." These are terms that the juveniles in this video use to describe their time locked in solitary confinement. According to this video 54,000 children are arrested each night, resulting in 8 billion dollars a year for incarceration. Thirty out of the fifty states have no age limit for crime. Can you imagine being 7 years old, like Zion in the video, feeling frustrated in bad because of the discipline he faces from teachers and the Juvenile Justice System? At 7 year old, the brain is not fully developed and to be charged as an adult for minor offenses is ludicrous. The video gave examples of minor deviant acts that children committed and were sent to juvenile facilities for. For example, a child spending 6 nights in Juvenile Detention for throwing skittles at another classmate and cussing in the parking lot. How are children supposed to learn from their mistakes if their childhood and identity are taken away from them at such a young age? Most of the juveniles in these facilities have a history of trauma and 92% of them are on psychotropic drugs. They are given these drugs at such a young age, how do we expect these same children to act in their teens and early adulthood without them? They simply won't be able to be without them; it's a never ending cycle. Another factor in this is solitary confinement. Dr. Grassian mentioned in the video that, "once in solitary confinement, they get worse and never come back." In other words, they are lost and disturbed. How can we sit back and let that happen? According to Cory Booker. there are 60% of suicide victims while in solitary confinement. Childhood is a time to find your identity and LIVE. How can we allow for children to be placed in juvenile facilities for things such as a cuss word, a push, or skipping a class? Even those who have a good reason to be placed in these facilities enter the system in hopes it will help them, yet they are being picked apart and losing their identities without any way in their minds of gaining that back. Why can't we come up with a system to help these young children survive in this society? Not everyone is raised in loving, idolized households, some need an extra push and pushing them into the juvenile justice system is not the key. We need to analyze the true issue and educate ourselves and others on how to stop this epidemic. Children shouldn't fear going to school and parents shouldn't fear sending them. Teachers and school administration need new policies to handle light situations in school instead of ruining innocent lives. behappy001
ReplyDeleteThe video Prison Kids an Informed View was very disturbing to view. The way children are being handled by the current Juvenile Justice System is very appalling. 54,000 children arrested in this country on any given night shows how much we as a country are failing our children. Little 7 year old Zion had over 40 write ups and hadn't even gotten out of primary school. Imagine the negative labels already placed upon this little boy who has a still developing brain. The United States incarcerates children at a higher rate than any other nation. The fact that most of these children are minorities shows the racial disparity in the Juvenile Justice System is very rampant. Savanah who was incarcerated at age 14 said she was in more physical altercations while incarcerated than when she was out in society. Placed in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, what affect do we expect this to have on a child. 70% of kids in the Juvenile Justice System are afflicted with mental issues and confining them for 23 hours only worsens the issues they are suffering from. Then they are cutting themselves and becoming depressed. Solitary confinement has the potential to harm adults so the harm it causes children is so very detrimental. Allen who was incarcerated at age 15 said that solitary confinement caused more aggression inside of him. Showing that solitary confinement with children only makes the problem worse not better. The Juvenile Justice System is supposed to be about rehabilitation and is instead focusing on punishment. 92% of children incarcerated are receiving powerful psychotropic drugs which are altering brain functions in their still developing brains. Add that to the solitary confinement and the results on brain development are not promising. If we don't start treating the underlying causes that children are being incarcerated for we will not help these kids. The fact that 30 out of 50 states in this country have no minimum age to charge a child with a crime is also insane. How do you justify charging a child for a crime for a childlike act that a simple reprimand could handle. Placing a child in incarceration for swearing or throwing skittles at a peer. The system is only creating more criminals not solving any problems. The entire system as well as the school system needs to be overhauled if our children have any hope of having a successful life. The way children are treated in this country is causing them to give up on school and themselves and that is very sad. Children's lives are being ruined for these little petty offenses in school and what a horrible message we are sending to the children in our country. The cards are already being stacked against so many children ensuring failure for these children. School should be a place children are thriving and feel cared for and with the racial disparity in our school system that is clearly not happening in our current school system. Getting to the root of the problems these young children are facing should be the focus not locking them up. mommy001
ReplyDeleteI agree, our country is not doing a good job at giving all children equal opportunities in school. Zion was already labelled deviant simply because he was written up in his younger grades. Teachers need to have a more open mind when it comes to kids with mental disabilities and make sure they have just as many opportunities as any other kid. Jah001
DeleteI agree, we are prescribing these juveniles with all these drugs and medications that they will have to rely on for the rest of their lives. By putting these kids in solitary confinement, we are taking away the socialization part of the juvenile brain developing. And then we ask ourselves why these kids who have been locked up are leaving not any better or even worse then they were when they were there. We need REHABILITATION and not all of this punishment that we are relying on to correct bad behavior. Broncos001
DeleteThe video Prison Kids shows how putting juveniles in jails can potentially create a criminal, rather than rehabilitating the juveniles deviant behavior. As early as seven years old kids are be labelled and are constantly given referrals which can be put on the child's permanent school record. Some states do not have a minimum age for some crimes, this can cause children to be taken to prison for committing "adult" crimes. This situation is outrageous because children are not fully developed. Once kids are taken to juvenile jails, they tend to adapt to the label that has been given to them. The juveniles start getting in more trouble at the jails and start participating in deviant criminal behaviors. These facilities punish the juveniles by sending them into solitary confinement for twenty three hours at a time. Solitary confinement is supposed to help the juvenile think about what they did wrong. However, solitary confinement simply makes the kids feel crazy. More solitary confinement correlates with bad behavior. Also, it was found that many kids are on anti-psychotic drugs, making it a very dangerous place having 92% of the juveniles on drugs they have never been around. Many kids in juvenile facilities have ptsd due to violent events. Juvenile jails takes away the childhood from kids, causing them to grow up too fast and pursue a criminal lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, the system in a way does not help these juveniles and the hopes for their futures. The system puts a label on them and makes their future seem so distant. It's so wrong that in some states there is no age limit on charging someone with a crime. How can a 5 year old someone who is not even developed mentally or physically all the way be locked up for all of his "wonder years". Solitary does nothing good for these kids, but drive them insane and push them further into the system. -dicaprio001
DeleteI think this video does make a great point at how the current juvenile justice system can make things worse and not help children rehabilitate and also make them into more of a criminal than they were before. They completely diminish the future of these kids and don't give them the chance to realize what they did was wrong and help them get better outside of a jail cell or solitary confinement. Bike001
DeleteThis video raised some alarming points. When the juvenile justice system swung from being rehabilitative to punitive because of the public’s increased fears of “juvenile super predators” in the mid 1990’s, it started to develop a lot of problems that have since become the focus of many news outlets today. There are 33 states in our country that do not have a minimum age required to be charged with a crime. This statistic alarms me. This means that children as young as six or seven could potentially be charged with a serious crime like battery, and that is just not right. A person’s brain is developing well into their twenty’s, and it is changing rapidly while they are school age, so how can we hold these young children accountable for something that they may not know, or understand yet, is wrong? Another alarming statistic that resonated with me from this video is that at one point in the Juvenile Detention Center that Alan was held in, 92% of the children detained there were on psychotropic drugs, sometimes at the max dose. This, when paired with the frequent use of solitary confinement in these facilities, is a recipe for disaster. Both the use of these drugs and the use of solitary confinement have been shown to make children more violent when they get out of these detention centers. Which will lead to more violent children being released from these facilities, which is very unfortunate since the majority of children that are being held in these facilities are in there for status offense violations, rather than violent crimes. Since 70% of the children in Juvenile Detention Centers across the country struggle with some form of mental illness, this can, and does, have disastrous consequences. Once these children get out of these detention centers, they may not be able to receive treatment for their mental illnesses from traditional institutions because they have been labeled “delinquent.” The last statistic that really resonated with me is that, nationally, 60% of children who commit suicide while in JDC custody had been subject to solitary confinement. The juvenile justice system was created with the intent to rehabilitate troubled children, not punish them in a way that will make them more violent when they are released, or make them take their own lives. EKT001
ReplyDeleteThis was a very good video with lots of info to go with it maybe school are getting more violent maybe kids are bring there problems outside of school to school maybe thats why there putting more cops in schools but i dont think we need to handle school problems with the law enforcement because it don't take but couple of tickets and your marked for ever labeled sometimes that makes you feel like you dont belong there and want to give up so your pushed up out so you end up in jail or prison sometimes not just end up getting a normall job which noting wrong with that but they dont get a fair chance at school and a bigger better job.I think its crazy 30 out of 50 states dont have a minimum age to charge a child you cant give little kids 50 years in prison for sometimes they problem had no idea they were doing it.I think that these petty crimes kids should be put in a little easier area and rehabilitate them teach them show them skills and that there not pos and still can fit in the normal world with little punishment to to show them that they cant go stealing and stuff because i dont care your back ground 90 percent of people know wrong from right.Now for kids that rape and murder i dont care where or who color or what you cant just kill someone or rape them.The people that really dont know the difference then should be put in some type of mental hospital.But you have to punish them you cant just feel bad because they grew up bad parents they knew killing was not right so yes they should be punished locked up but being so young i think we should give them some type of help.WE need to punish kids with teaching or rehbiliton at the sametime without given them a recored because they will only fellow them make things harder and if anything add more more kids to the system then there already is.cowboys001
ReplyDeleteThis video shows the flaws in the juvenile delinquency justice system. The United States incarcerates more juveniles than any other county in the world, and many of them are locked up for minor status offence such as skipping school. The major problem of the system is that there is not enough rehabilitation and it is more focused on punishment. When these kids get in trouble in prison they are sent to solitary confinement. One kid in the video, Allen, spent over 300 day of a year in solitary confinement. He said that his time in solitary confinement only made his aggression worse. Many of these offenders already have mental illnesses such as ADHD, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and even PTSD. In solitary confinement they basically start to go crazy. They talk to them selves and even draw all over the walls of their cells. To correct this detention centers will prescribe psychotropic drugs that completely change their personality. Far to often they are prescribed the maximum amount. Once these kids are released that have some time lost two to three years of their life, taking away their child hood. Recidivism rates for juvenile are near 75% within 2 to 3 years or release. How ever there is hope. Judge Linda has started a program that helps to get kid help and not incarceration, with the goal of treating underlying causes such as mental illnesses. There is also a special school for kids like Zion where troubled kids are sent to help with behavioral issues. They spend time with counselors that try to find out why the kids are acting out and find a way to help them. 7point62001
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. The system is supposed to be more focused on rehabilitation, yet it leans toward punishment more than anything. It is the easy way out. With certain kids who should not have been locked up in the first place, they would have outburst and would be sent to solitary confinement. This is so much more damaging than treating them properly. Some juveniles need to have a psych consult and be taken care of properly, not just pumped with drugs because that will ruin a person. agentp001
DeleteAfter watching this episode, I found many points made over the course very interesting and some really surprised me. It defiantly changed the way I look at the Juvenile Justice System and how much room for change their actually is. One fact is that some sates do not have a minimal age for getting arrested and charged. How can we arrest and charge a 3 year old if they were to do something? I find that completely ridiculous. Another fact that I found stuck out to me is that majority of kids locked up didn't even commit violent crimes. IN fact, a lot of them occurred in school. A kid is now locked up and arrested for spitting or hitting another kid on the playground. Whats next? Arresting a kid for cheating on a test or taking too long in the bathroom? There are so many more beneficial ways to correct bad behavior at school than bringing a police officer to get involved. Start more programs for kids misbehaving that are not focused on punishing and more on finding the main cause of the deviant behavior. When we arrest these kids, they are given the title as deviant and that ruins and distorts the way they are scene by classmates, and family members. Parents give up, or they lose friends. eventually causing them to drop out and join gangs. That is how a kid hitting someone at school turns into a teenager shooting someone over nothing due to gang affiliation. It is all apart of one. great, big slippery slope. Another part that stood out to me was the fact that we are making these kids spend so much time in solitary confinement while they are locked up, and we are not realizing all of the psychological damage it does to these kids. We are talking about long term damage that affects the rest of their lives due to misbehaving in jail. Another point that was made was that 92% of kids that were locked up with Alan were prescribed Anti-Psychotic drugs for disorders they gave gained. When we do finally let these kids out of prison, a lot of them are affected by PTSD and have to live with it for the rest of their lives. We take away these kids childhoods and lock them up, then when we let them out, we expect them to be "a new person" when we provided little to no guidance to help rehabilitate them. We are charging these kids as adults and ruining their future even more. We can not assume that when a child or teenager commits a crime, that they thought that crime out as seriously as an adult would. A child or teenager does not think the same way as an adult, therefore we should not be charging them as adults. Broncos001
ReplyDeleteI found this video very interesting and in some ways appalling. The way we treat juveniles in the justice system is in some ways wrong. One thing that was really shocking to me is in Florida one of the 30/50 states there is no age limit on arresting and charging a juvenile. How can we lock someone up who is only 5 years old? Our brains are not even fully developed yet. How can someone so young be aware of what they are actually doing. Most of the kids in the Justice System suffer from behavioral problems.Zion for example has major anxiety and ADHD. One of the things we have to remember is that people with behavioral or mental disorders have to be approached in different ways than others who don't suffer from those conditions. And locking those kids up is going to make things worse for them, how are they going to get better? Especially if we are locking these kids up in solitary confinement. Even if the kids didn't have any behavioral or mental problems before solitary is going to create those problems. Solitary effects the mental state of juveniles and only creates bigger problems. It's going to push these juveniles into a life of more crime and get pushed into being adult criminals, Most of them will never get out of the system. Isn't the system suppose to help rehabilitate people rather than keep them in? Juveniles are being locked up for status offenses like skipping school. Your going to lock a kid up for skipping school? How do you know there aren't outside factors that are keeping that kid from going to school. A lot of juveniles live in poverty. Most children in America do live in poverty. It's harder for them to obtain the means to stay and school. And by kicking them out of school, where do you think they are going to go? They are going to be out on the streets getting involved in crime. Joining gangs to feel like they are a apart of something. Juveniles going gangs for many reasons and that's one of them, to feel apart of something to feel important. Because they feel as if no one cares for them. 92% of all juveniles locked up are on anti-psychotic drugs, 60% of kids end up committing suicide. These numbers are outrageous. And because juveniles have mental or behavioral health problems once they get out they are going to need additional help. But the problem is that most mental health facilities won't help them because they have been incarcerated. Yet again labels are being put on these juveniles at such a young age most of them have no future because of something small they did as a juvenile. Mental health is a huge problem not only in juveniles about across the board in this country. Yet again another problem in the system is the bias against people of color. 81% of the arrests are African Americans when they only make up 41% of the population in Jefferson Parish Public High School. In no way is that right. The problem is the Criminal Justice System is built on white, wealthy, educated people who probably cannot even see from a different side of life. African American juveniles are 2x more likely to be arrested and locked up before white juveniles, and even as adults. The world is full of labels upon labels that need to be lifted. Since 2012 racial disparity has gone up. When are we going to stop blaming an entire race for everything when it's only a few some who are actually criminals. It's really like that with any race if we are being honest. But it's 2016 when are we going to leave race out of things and just bring justice to those who deserve it. Not blame people just because the color of their skin. The long term affect of the juvenile justice system just makes kids want to give up and not even try to change their paths because the labels that have been thrown on them. There are many things wrong with the system that need to be changed, cannot happen overnight. But as a new generation I think we've got the right idea and can start now. -dicaprio001
ReplyDeleteThis video shows how even from such a young age a kid can be caught up in the criminal justice system. Things such as poverty, mental illness, and how they are doing in school can affect how they turn out. This is a perfect example of how the school to prison pipeline works. Punishing a kid for something they did at school with arresting them is not going to help. THis will ultimately end up labeling the child which will then make them commit even more delinquent acts. Labeling theory is definitely at play here. The kids mother is trying so hard to fight that label and have him be "normal". Shes afraid that he will become an adult criminal and she doesnt want to see her kid grow up to be that. The way the school punishes children with out of school suspensions and the police is making the problem worse. Especially when it is for stupid things like making a gun shape out of a pop tart. A maximum punishment for a very very minor infraction sounds like a very good deterrent on paper but in the real world humans just don't behave like that. This video did a great job showing a real life story on how a kids life can be changed by becoming a part of the criminal justice system and I would recommend it to anybody pursuing a criminal justice degree.
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This video shows how are juvenile justice system can be so messed up. There is a lot of kids out there with mental problems that need to be addressed and delt with properly but these zero tolerance and no chance policies don't allow kids to have a chance to be rehabilitated. The worst part is a big percentage of the time it's the poor and minority groups that are targeted and they can't afford a good lawyer to defend their children in juvenile court. There has been reports of kids being thrown in the juvenile justice system for things like throwing skittles at a classmate and these kids might have mental issues and they don't even give them a chance to learn what they did was bad without throwing them in the system for something as petty as that. It's even worse that when they go to juvenile jail they are a lot of the time just given a bunch of drugs and thrown in solitary confinement to boil and get worse. They literally just throw these kids in a room and forget about them for 23 hours of the day and ignore any problems they might have. This is no way to treat a child and can definitely make things worse than they were before. They are literally just ignoring all of these kids problems and locking them in a little room. There needs to be a big change in our juvenile justice system to help rehabilitate these kids instead of just throwing them in the system and forgetting about them and the problems they might have. Bike001
ReplyDeleteThis video is very enlightening. There was a phrase during the end that said "Juvenile Justice System is suppose to rehabilitate kids" yet there are a few kids in this video who after being sent to juvenile prison, they were wavered up to the adult prison. If the goal is to rehabilitate, then that should be the only goal. There are a lot of kids who are put into juvenile prison for some of the smallest offenses, and they are sitting next to kids who have done much much worse. Kids are rotated over and over from the juvenile facilities to the adult jails. The recidivism rates for adults that were in juvenile facilities has spiked and is nearly 3/4 the percentage of people who keep going back to prison. Savannah had requested at the age of 19 for an early release in order to attend a program that would help her with college after getting out. She was denied her request. If the goal really was to rehabilitate, situations like this would have been handled differently and Savannah might have gotten her chance. So many kids are put through the system, and are damaged because of it. It all cycles back to the Preschool to Prison pipeline. Children who misbehave in school at younger ages, and are treated poorly by cops when the school calls them in, are more likely to become juveniles and criminals later in life. It is actually damaging children who, with the proper guidance, would have been better off and not have turned to the Preschool to Prison pipeline. It all starts at a young age, with how us, as adults, set an example for our young people. agentp001
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on this because mostly all African Americans might go to jail for something wrong like fighting or selling drugs. And the kids spend 23 hours in solitary confinement and only 1 hour of recreation time. And when they get out they get even worse with their health issues. Golfer001
DeleteIts just weird that all of the African Americans do this and have to spend 23 hours in solitary confinement. 92 % of the solitary confinement kids have to take some kind of psychotropic drug to make them better when they have ADHD or PTSD. Some of the kids in solitary confinement have lose it and go crazy or just write on the wall to make them feel better while incarcerated. Zion is only 7 years old and he has been written up so man times and has kicked a teacher out of anger and his mom thinks he might get arrested. And some states' you can get arrested at 10 years and younger. Golfer001
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