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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 414511" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I would be EXTREMELY leery of the sprinkler head thing and I wouldn't do a thing about it until you actually hear about it directly from the institution. Do the juvenile institutions run on a "trust fund" system like the adult prisons do? It's a cashless system like a bank where the money they earn in their jobs or money sent by families goes. That money is how they pay for basics like soap, shampoo and toothpaste (and junk food). If they incur a fine or have to pay restitution, it comes out of that trust fund. If they don't have enough to cover it, it just stays there as a big negative balance. Any money they receive can be taken to pay their debt and if the system is run right, it will be taken before they have a chance to spend it but I wouldn't count on it. But NEVER is this debt passed on to the families. If it's not paid when they leave, it is just written off.</p><p> </p><p>And destroying a sprinkler head could very easily run into that much money! If they had done that in the adult institution where I worked, they would have not only be charged with the cost of the parts, they would also be charged with the cost of the salaries of the maintenance workers who were there on time and a half over time to fix the sprinkler system! Depending on how they did it, they could have damaged the ceilings or the piping system that is up in the ceiling which means that the ceiling would have to be torn in to to fix the pipes, then rebuilt. And when you break off a sprinkler head, water comes gushing out like a firehose, flooding everything in the area and destroying property. Destroying a sprinkler head is NOT a minor thing and it sounds like they dealt with it accordingly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 414511, member: 1883"] I would be EXTREMELY leery of the sprinkler head thing and I wouldn't do a thing about it until you actually hear about it directly from the institution. Do the juvenile institutions run on a "trust fund" system like the adult prisons do? It's a cashless system like a bank where the money they earn in their jobs or money sent by families goes. That money is how they pay for basics like soap, shampoo and toothpaste (and junk food). If they incur a fine or have to pay restitution, it comes out of that trust fund. If they don't have enough to cover it, it just stays there as a big negative balance. Any money they receive can be taken to pay their debt and if the system is run right, it will be taken before they have a chance to spend it but I wouldn't count on it. But NEVER is this debt passed on to the families. If it's not paid when they leave, it is just written off. And destroying a sprinkler head could very easily run into that much money! If they had done that in the adult institution where I worked, they would have not only be charged with the cost of the parts, they would also be charged with the cost of the salaries of the maintenance workers who were there on time and a half over time to fix the sprinkler system! Depending on how they did it, they could have damaged the ceilings or the piping system that is up in the ceiling which means that the ceiling would have to be torn in to to fix the pipes, then rebuilt. And when you break off a sprinkler head, water comes gushing out like a firehose, flooding everything in the area and destroying property. Destroying a sprinkler head is NOT a minor thing and it sounds like they dealt with it accordingly. [/QUOTE]
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