Juvenile Incarceration Perpetuates Deviancy
Lacking Educational Standards and Negative Environment
In Today's Juvenile Detention Facilities
Diomira A. Birch
College Composition CM220-16
Sarah Kate Stephenson
October 2, 2005

It is the middle of the second quarter in high school. Classes have been in session for over a month. An unfamiliar face walks in the door, his first attendance of the year. He is able to scrape by and figure out what is going on in his English class, but is desperately trying to grasp the concepts in math. He had spent the last 120 days in a juvenile detention center. He is so far behind that he will most likely have to repeat his junior year.
Sadly, this is not a unique situation. Many youths that are incarcerated face similar homecomings upon their release from juvenile detention facilities. Incarceration is counterproductive to rehabilitating youth offenders because it denies them proper basic education, fails to address special education needs as......

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