Comments on: Study: Locking Up Juveniles Makes Them More Likely To Be Adult Criminals

By: haley

haley — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:15:30 +0000

The sad thing about being a kid today-they aren’t allowed to be kids anymore. Now, don’t get me wrong as I do not condone criminal behavior. However, not that many years ago, things like toilet papering trees, silly kid pranks were not considered criminal acts. Now, it seems if a kid is caught doing something this harmless, they are arrested and treated like felons. I am glad I was born in the 50’s and was raised in the 60’s and 70’s. Life was simpler and silly/young teenage pranks weren’t considered criminal. Call me old fashion-mom in the workforce, daddy working, taking prayers out of the schools is messing up our society.

By: Carolyn Bramblett

Carolyn Bramblett — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:05:05 +0000

The penal system was not meant to rehabilitate people. It was meant for punishment.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:15:08 +0000

If we spent more on education and less on prisons more than half of this problem would take care of itself. Break the cycle of poverty, crime and prison with education and opportunity. We’re spending billions in other countries when we have basic needs here.

By: ME

ME — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:31:44 +0000

So many true and correct statements.
There is an awful lot of abuse in the system.
I know because I worked for the system for many years.
Lots of taxpayers money down the drain.
YES, there are “some” kids that just plain refuse to live a decent life and needs to be locked up, but I have seen many kids locked up that should not have been.
I have seen very young children, as young as 7 and 8 years old brought into the facility.
And as for the “alternative” schools. Nothing but a JOKE! Visit one anytime, and most likely you will walk into a classroom and see the teacher with their legs propped up on the desk, with the kids running wild while the teacher is on a cell phone. Young kids running around out of control. And the teachers are no better.
Most anyone could start an “Alternative” school. Just open up a building, name it, hire a few helpers to act like a teacher, ask the Government for money, and there you go folks. Seen it!

By: JulieB

JulieB — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:36:39 +0000

DON: An extra chromosome does NOT make a person “bad” nor does it make them animal like…THINK before you type. I personally have a child with an extra chromosome and know she’s neither one!
BTW,there is NO ac/heat in prison..and I don’t always agree that locking a kid up is the way to help them. Have you ever thought about what they learn in there,from the hardened career criminals? Jail/prison isnt always the answer. Not all people who break the law should go to prison. Some get in trouble ONCE and never return again. I think it all depends on the life they want to lead ,what they have been taught,and how they’re raised!
just my opinion

By: gst

gst — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:01:44 +0000

all these bad kids are at the alternative school they go to school then go out and rob & shoot people.most of the time you watch the news it one of them they should send them off way away from here and lock them up

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:51:14 +0000

I’m not sure the kids as a whole are any worse today than they were in previous generations.
I’m not sure the worst today are any worse than the worst of previous generations or a greater percentage.
I went to school with some good kids and some mighty sorry ones.
Some got better. Some got worse. Most stayed about the same.

And those who depended on the schools to introduce their children to Christ, rather than doing it themselves, may have been poor witnesses and examples.
My parents taught me long before I first set foot in school and led the way. My God doesn’t depend on government invitation to live in my heart. If He did, there wouldn’t be much to Him.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:34:08 +0000

Gary,
Some of the solutions you tried may have been counterproductive.
Sometimes even the practice of switching forms of discipline may be counterproductive. (“If I hold out long enough, he’ll switch to something else.”)

And, of course, it may actually be hopeless, especially by now. Pray for guidance if you believe.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:21:17 +0000

Guards rape a tenth of the kids in jail?
No wonder some feel they are not properly respected.
Wonder why the leave the others alone?

We see the failures. Judgment withheld as youthful offender, arrested again within the year for doing the same thing.
They say only 14% in alternative programs were arrested again while in the program, but not how long the program is, what percent are arrested after leaving the program, how many are suspected but just not caught.

They say incarceration does not change the trajectory of their lives.
Does that mean 10% of those not incarcerated will also have close involuntary sexual encounters with guards?
Their lives follow the same course whether they are incarcerated or not?
Sometimes they do these things and spend NO time in jail???

Lots of interesting statements, all possibly true.
Supporting evidence would be appreciated

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:18:38 +0000

And not locking them up teaches them they can get away with it.

Now, every man, on his way to adulthood, has some “boy’ to work out of his system, some wildness, etc. I was the same, & I took some pretty hard knocks coming up. The kids nowadays need to go to the same school, not coddled like infants. I say let the punishment fit the crime, if a kid does a serious, adult type crime, like murder, etc., sure, lock him/her up. But separate those that get up to your usual teenage tomfoolery from the trash, like gang member activity, druggies, & so on.

Remember, the bleeding heart liberals would throw us all to the wolves, gunless, defenseless, naked & exposed. And never forget there is a section of the population that makes a living doing studies, like this one & others such as that global warming nonsense, from government funds, which we taxpayers foot the bill for. They do quite nicely, & they keep that well flowing by stirring up the general public, by way of playing on your emotions. Don’t buy into it. Oh yeah, that’s right, you already did, whether you like it or not, by paying your tax.