Khaled,
I wouldn't doubt the juvenile system is
overcrowding. Around here, the juvenile holding
center overflowed and the guards had to put cots out
into the gym areas and other areas of the usual one
inmate behind bars holding cells. There are often no
place to put juveniles outside of the holding cells.
The counties push to get certain juveniles out of
placement facilities to free up room, but then the
juveniles return right back into the system usually
less than three or two months. At least that's how it
was were I used to work. Of all the residents that
left, I'd say about 80% of them or more were right
back in the system within that timeframe.
SA
> Chris
>
> here are a few more comments about your question.
>
> [Chris]
> If we now have the state, and we can make it work
> for us, both
> working as a frame for social patterns of value and,
> furthering the
> development AND being controlled by - intellectual
> patterns of value
> (reason) then why on earth should we not do so?
>
> The unfortunate thing is that like so many things in
> life, once you make
> a decision and stick with it, then you go pass the
> point-of-no-return,
> eventually exhausting all of your resources.
>
> Here is a story form todays newspapers:
>
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/02/28/DI2008
> 022802960.html
>
> it's about prison population in the US.
>
> here is the Link to the full report in PDF format
>
>
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/One%20in%20100.pdf
>
> and as you can see, we have a society that keeps
> telling people to
> empower themselves, that socializing services is a
> bad thing, then we go
> and spend billions of dollars to keep people locked
> up. Meanwhile we
> offer them no training and no opportunity after they
> leave prison.
>
> I live in a city of about 400,000 people. The city's
> budget is just over
> a billion dollars. HALF of that goes to the police
> department.
>
> Some prisons in the US are privately run. Whether
> private or public, it
> costs about $50,000 a year to keep someone locked
> up.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Khaled
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