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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 315267" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Of course the facility the kid gets sent to has a WHOLE lot to do with things. Trust me, I still have MANY frustrations dealing with legal authorities but my worst fears have not transpired, at least, and my son has done well there. Now whether or not he will be the same, worse, or better when he's released is a different story.</p><p></p><p>I should clarify- I am referring to a state Department of Juvenile Justice facility that is set up to run like a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for behavior modification (it's not much for mental health treatment but does have a little). This is different than the local detention center, which is a complete waste of time, in my humble opinion. In detention, my son was exposed to all local kids awaiting trial for all kinds of offenses and there was only about 2 hours a day of a poor excuse for education. It was horrible and he was exposed to bad things. In this state Department of Juvenile Justice, they catagorize kids according to risk and type of problems and put them in facilities accordingly, so he is not in with the most dangerous and does not live in a unit with sex offenders. He has regular school, all day, but the school does have Department of Juvenile Justice guards throughout. He was catagorized as having anger management issues (the only other 2 options are sex offender and substance abuse) and had to do a "program" for that, which he has completed. Different states handle these things differently and they all aren't set up the same, but the local detention usually doesn't do much except wake the kid up to what could happen. Many come out of there more comfortable with incarceration- and detention centers normally hold kids for shorter periods, not really rehabilitative in nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 315267, member: 3699"] Of course the facility the kid gets sent to has a WHOLE lot to do with things. Trust me, I still have MANY frustrations dealing with legal authorities but my worst fears have not transpired, at least, and my son has done well there. Now whether or not he will be the same, worse, or better when he's released is a different story. I should clarify- I am referring to a state Department of Juvenile Justice facility that is set up to run like a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for behavior modification (it's not much for mental health treatment but does have a little). This is different than the local detention center, which is a complete waste of time, in my humble opinion. In detention, my son was exposed to all local kids awaiting trial for all kinds of offenses and there was only about 2 hours a day of a poor excuse for education. It was horrible and he was exposed to bad things. In this state Department of Juvenile Justice, they catagorize kids according to risk and type of problems and put them in facilities accordingly, so he is not in with the most dangerous and does not live in a unit with sex offenders. He has regular school, all day, but the school does have Department of Juvenile Justice guards throughout. He was catagorized as having anger management issues (the only other 2 options are sex offender and substance abuse) and had to do a "program" for that, which he has completed. Different states handle these things differently and they all aren't set up the same, but the local detention usually doesn't do much except wake the kid up to what could happen. Many come out of there more comfortable with incarceration- and detention centers normally hold kids for shorter periods, not really rehabilitative in nature. [/QUOTE]
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