Inside America's Solitary Confinement For Kids

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The US Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry forbids the use of solitary confinement on juveniles. Yet on Rikers Island, correctional officers are increasingly enlisting its use against young inmates.
"Going in the Box, your mind just simply can't take it", says Ismael Nazario. He was locked alone in a 6 by 8 foot cell for 23 hours a day, a punitive measure that is linked to half of all suicides among detained teens. Human rights advocates such as the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, warn of the severe mental damage caused by subjecting young inmates to punitive segregation. Yet prison staff like Norman Seabrook argue that it is the "only way" to enforce order and safely deal with violent inmates in a stretched jail system. But with reports that more than a quarter of young inmates on Rikers Island jail complex in New York City are being held in solitary confinement, including for minor infractions, many are questioning whether it really is the correct response.
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@RobinFlynHigh69 9 жыл бұрын

What crazy is the fact if a regular person " citizen " LOCKED their child \ teenager in a room for 300 days for being disobedient ; they'd be thrown into prison . they'd be called a monster and made out to be the worst parents in the world . But its okay for our government to do it .

@edotbizzle4881 5 жыл бұрын

Riiight!! Fucked up for anyone to be in Solitary for too long

@twonedevo2564 4 жыл бұрын

RobinFlynHigh69 but they committed a crime 🤨

@jarimik 4 жыл бұрын

@@twonedevo2564 it's either their freedom or sanity, OR their freedom and sanity

@StormRaid417 2 жыл бұрын

@@jarimik If you show them love and forgiveness they will change. I'm not saying all of them will but doing something like that to someone will want them to keep doing crimes. If you don't show your love to someone they will not change at all.

@Stikibits 9 жыл бұрын

USA: Less enlightened and more tyrannical every passing day.

@benjamin4394 3 жыл бұрын

God bless the young man who said he was going to use his experience to teach his daughter a better way.

@DeathBringer9000 9 жыл бұрын

being alone for long periods can make people desperate

@anjelinaidoo5321 5 жыл бұрын

omg. my heart goes out to these kids. Childhood stolen. so much fro rehabilitation. and the system wonders why they leave prison systems worse and cannot integrate back into society. I pray for these kids.

@Gianfranco_69 9 жыл бұрын

i did three months in isolation at 22,without access to books i would have banged my head open with the mindcrushing tedium. If you don't like your own company most jailtime is a real challenge mentally

@xwtea 5 жыл бұрын

gian franco 0:

@gracefullikeagazelle 3 жыл бұрын

gian franco It's torture. Modern era psychological torture meant to torment and break the victim. Heinous punishment meted out by medieval monsters.

@margotd8268 9 жыл бұрын

When someone commits a crime, usually it is because they are lashing out after having a hard time (abuse, neglect, etc.). Instead of intensifying the problems for these troubled children, officials should help them by seeking therapists and others who can find those problems and banish them from the child's life. Everyone would be happier.

@jarimik 4 жыл бұрын

Look, if a kid kills someone then it is 99.9% the fault of the upbringing.

@Rocco-yk6hl Жыл бұрын

I can tell that you are not a realist and you think people are like you and will improve their behaviour because you show them love however you are right about 80 present in the right setting but prison you are thinking a completely different way and you are back to primitive kind of thinking it’s survival love is regarded as weakness this leaves you wide open some people think out of a very bad dark place and manipulation is thereGreatest weapon you will touch evil you will feel it it’s like The air it’s all around you and contaminates the other prisoners Some wake up and he will plot and scheme how to hurt you or take something from you and this is there goal every day

@kedim2353 9 жыл бұрын

They are killing our children...this is not rehabilliation, its murder. Kids unfortuantely are raging from lack of guidance, attention and stable family homes. Instead I feel if kids are more troublesome, they should treat them with more intensive counselling treatments, than solitary confinemnet. Deal with the real root of their problem, not the symptom(which in this case if the behavior)

@sophieroman5154 5 жыл бұрын

💯👏🏼🙏🏼

@CAsnowman 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah he totally puts his life on the line telling the footsoldiers to do his bidding behind his desk. he isn't out there dealing with the kids and he makes it sound like he risks his life working there. LOL yea right! you sit there and basically tell your officers to use their own judgement to punish kids. ridiculous.

@30mmBalistic 9 жыл бұрын

"No matter what they did there still kids" tell that to the familes whose lives they have ruined, I knew a "kid" that was an absolute monster, nothing could help him except death or jail....hes in prison now and this neighborhood is safer because of that...

@like7oranges 9 жыл бұрын

kids who don't have families and communities who are supportive are more likely to end up on the street looking for that support, and the fact is that gangs often become that support. a child is a child no matter what, and when they are growing up every single interaction is important, so is the lack of interaction like in solitary, and it will shape them as an adult. they need to be given the tools and support that they need and treated like human beings, not thrown in a jail cell.

@TheBellman 9 жыл бұрын

You see, this is the problem. In the US, prisons are a place to throw people to rot if they dodge the death penalty. Everywhere else, it's about some form of redemption or remediation.

@like7oranges 9 жыл бұрын

Upthe Snatch no, its not, you've clearly never traveled. humans group up thats what they do, you go anywhere in the entire world that there are drugs to be sold, brothels to be run, and money to be made you will find gangs above AND below street level taking advantage of that market, you ignorant racist piece of shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs_and_syndicates

@30mmBalistic 9 жыл бұрын

HyperAndHappy stop lying to yourself and look at reality dumb dumb..

@ieuanhunt552 9 жыл бұрын

And isolating these kids for months at a time screwing up their cognitive development is really not going to help

@doham5335 9 жыл бұрын

Despite the fact that some of these teens are violent doesn't make it ok to isolate them, those teens need guide and to feel they belong to the rest of the society, isolation won't ever help them mentally or socially, and I liked that guy when he said "you become your worst enemy in a box" so you can imagine how hard is it on them... sorry for my poor English

@79987565768558756 9 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing they don't have the staff for the alternative. Otherwise you put people you know to have been recently violent into the population, lawsuit waiting to happen.

@s0nnyburnett 9 жыл бұрын

Corrections department sounds like something from a 1970's dystopian novel. Nothing gets fixed there. Draconian laws putting people who commit petty offenses at young age with hardened violent criminals. The problem doesn't go away just because you send these kids out of view. Now they'll never get a job, even retail won't take you with the tiniest offense. I love how Riker's is next to the airport, so all those coming and going get to see how fucking broken the system is yet still not really notice it.

@up1473 7 жыл бұрын

you see the world diffrent aswell. you see the lost in humanity and what a human can do to another human in this case legally. its just crazy tho. only did 10 days in the hole for a incident where neither one of us threw one punch. first time in jail doing two months 18 years old. really does change your perspective on life. as for my case young love not one punch was thrown in that aswell. im 19 now still in some disbelief.

@up1473 7 жыл бұрын

this dosent just go on in jail/prisons they have this in mental hospitals for young kids aswell where they put you in a room to "calm down" but cant come out when they want. im talking little 7-8 year olds. the system is just really fucked up.

@foustontheroad113 4 жыл бұрын

Spent days and days at a time in isolation in juvenile detention. No child should suffer like this.

@mczenk5095 5 жыл бұрын

What most don't understand is that loss of freedom itself is the punishment. Treating inmates like animals only causes more problems.

@buzzyx3 9 жыл бұрын

lol black dude looks like gus from breaking bad xD

@A4Gaming 8 жыл бұрын

Ah America, Land of the free and lover of freedom lol

@joyhu1143 8 жыл бұрын

Come to canada dude, do it now or trump will get u!

@A4Gaming 8 жыл бұрын

I stay in the UK but hope to visit 1 day

@noneyabiz6928 6 жыл бұрын

It is but if you lose your chance at freedom because of your actions that's your fault not the place you live

@anakayj1674 6 жыл бұрын

RIP Kalief Browder 🙏🏾

@TraumaQueenAirOne 9 жыл бұрын

Someone made a very good point when they said that if a parent did to their kids what the employees of these institutions are doing to their kids...that child would immediately be removed from the home... So what makes it ok for a complete stranger to discipline these children...and just what do they think those kids are thinking as they are being punished? I myself was a loner at that age... Always skipping school and running away from home were the worst things I ever did... I remember one of my "adventures" took me from FL to CA just by hitchhiking! Boy I knew no fear back then...but I'd never do it now... At one point I was sent to a "reform school" in FL for being "incorrigible" I tried to run away a couple of times but each time the "guards" would chase me down and catch me... THEN I was put in isolation for weeks at a time... They never turned the lights off ever... Even at night and the blankets were so thin that the light shined right through it... So it doesn't really look like much has changed since I was there except for one thing... The guys have those boot camps where some of them have actually been killed due to dehydration...heat stroke...heat exhaustion and that's acceptable behavior for the staff? If the parent had done something like that they would have been arrested on the spot... I would suggest something such as a loss of privileges...rather than something that could turn into something tragic....

@AlexA-tx3ql 6 жыл бұрын

My stepdad use to put me in isolation for hours as a small child every summer in my room i use to spend all summer alone made me very aggressive once i went back to school

@stevekolacinski1823 9 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@acajudi100 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Judi Grace StoryCorps.

@fiercebandicoot 7 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was stupid to send a 16 year old to this prison . Like why . The government knows it's a terrible place it's freaking infamous for Christ sakes . Why would you send a kid there ? Growing up in Brooklyn I saw a lot of traumatizing shit why add more trauma if the brain doesn't fully develop until you're 25? The government is trash

@bedazzlejuju 9 жыл бұрын

Before they are charged with a crime? Before they are proven guilty?

@legacyturbo8485 9 жыл бұрын

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

@phishitaac 9 жыл бұрын

the only thing worse then a cop is a doc worker

@mrwhite9775 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t do crime . That’s a normal bit of advice, don’t cry when your punished, and shout you can’t do this Live a normal life

@silentdriver666 Ай бұрын

Lol. that is nice newly painted isolation cell 😂

@tomaszstarling 7 жыл бұрын

The difference is those juveniles broke the law and assaulted staff or another inmate in jail in order to get into solitary. You don't end up in solitary confinement for going to church

@ua7217 4 жыл бұрын

Not true solitary confinement is handed out easily especially in private prisons

@Vaudvillain 9 жыл бұрын

This was powerful.. thank you!

@neffort 9 жыл бұрын

Be in the business of helping the inmates. Doesn't take much to put someone in a box and forget about them.

@infinitecanadian 9 жыл бұрын

What people don't seem to realize here in the comments section is that prison terms are _earned_. If you play with fire, expect to get burned.

@rh5599 5 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!!! Fuckin beauty, aye!!

@heposlis2409 5 жыл бұрын

You know the solitary has overcome when your brain starts hallucinating you brain simply dont want to face reality no more😔😢

@MegaScumbucket 7 жыл бұрын

Land of the free my hole. Torturing kids is not the answer. What a joke of a system.

@abercrombie3000 9 жыл бұрын

If I would be one of the kids in this documantry I would put a case to international court of justice. The UN guy said that what US is doing is unleagal. So make a case and get your compensation

@Jayvees 6 жыл бұрын

abercrombie3000

@crabbylobster4411 9 жыл бұрын

we had MUCH better systems to deal with these things in the 1950's, this isn't how you cure kids. I understand, for example, that (like the guy below pointed out) some just can't be handled. However, there are so many better methods that can be used to help these kids. Most kids I've seen in rehabs continue to go back there repeatedly! This stuff doesn't work, and in fact makes it worse.

@treasuretrails 3 жыл бұрын

Modern day torture....... So grateful after 8 hours of work I get to go home, they have to stay in there :(

@gracefullikeagazelle 3 жыл бұрын

4:00 300 DAYS IN ISOLATION??? Before being convicted of a crime?? Who the fuck metes out and enforces these punishments?? Whoever you are, YOU deserve the SAME treatment and punishment for handing down such sentences.

@luhoffma8836 9 жыл бұрын

good video

@stancyheddens867 5 жыл бұрын

In my opinion this is crazy! So you can put children in solitary confinement if they annoy you? I understand if they’re being violent & have hurt someone or themselves & even then only segregate them for a very short amount of time. More or less a time out. But putting kids in solitary confinement for long periods of time is definitely going to make them worse & affect their mental health & growth. I read a lot of comments that said if a parent did this to a child the child would be removed from the home & the parents could face child abuse charges & be considered horrible parents but it’s ok for one government to do this to kids! I agree. This is so messed up! No it’s not ok! And it’s so sad that this is the only thing that they can come up with. They need to get to the root of the problem & find out why kids are in jail in the first place. Sticking kids as young as 16 yrs old in adult jails/prisons & putting them in solitary is beyond me. Treating them like adults isn’t right because they aren’t adults! It’s common sense! This is heartbreaking to me. Most adults can’t handle solitary let alone kids. I definitely didn’t expect the guitar. But look what happened when they gave him positive attention & supported something positive that that child loves & has a passion for his whole demeanor changed & so did his behavior. What they did was a simple & small thing but to that child it was huge & it made such a big difference.

@guselijahgeldman481 8 жыл бұрын

There is a real crisis in this country when it comes to all things prison. If we don't catch these kids and offer them another way they will keep getting locked up. There is a group really trying to help check them out at www.crowdrise.com/youthempowermentscho1/fundraiser/youthempowermentschool

@danielacanto6164 4 жыл бұрын

I really do think that one kid who is talking about his experience being locked up young probably needed therapy help after he got out to deal with his trauma of wat impact it happen in his mind.

@slumone6458 6 жыл бұрын

Did it myself 23 hrs a day as a juvenile for 90 days at a time from 14 - 18 longest time i spent free was 23 days got out on my 18th ain't been in any trouble since and I'm 34 cant do the time dont do the crime my dads done time in prison told him what our cells were like said it's like the hole in prison youngest person I was locked up with was 7 fukin years old ppl would try and drop there kids off like it was a daycare or some shit seen a lot of fuked up shit behind walls made me a better person tho what they call the box was my home for damn near 5 years

@Cantetinza17 9 жыл бұрын

Well My sister and I were not allowed to go out and play through the week; for good reason though cause both my parents worked and they didn't want anyone taking us, but when they were home we still had to stay in our room unless it was meal time. Weekends and holidays was when my parents were flexible. But at least we had a large window and we could have our door open. By them doing that to 16 year old kids that hopefully that makes them wisen up that there is no Juve for you. I don't know if the kids should be in Solitary the whole time, but if they are trying to keep them from the grown men then I understand, but you can't do it all the time. Kids need interaction. To be put in cause your annoying is just dumb. Their kids annoyance is what they do. fighting I can see, but not being annoying.

@tyronew7296 9 жыл бұрын

Think it just boils down to increasing inmates, since the prison system is a big money maker..

@tjb189215 9 жыл бұрын

Prison reports always concern me because we often see the inmate, after the fact. We never see the inmate before punishment. We often have a more calmed man vs. system, man vs. himself view of the inmate. Until they have met a formidable foe like themselves or the system how are we supposed to judge their true human characteristic? Not all humans act humane.

@josephhottenstein599 9 жыл бұрын

I have a little insight on this, if you have any specific questions.

@tjb189215 9 жыл бұрын

Joseph Hottenstein I just think these documentaries on prisoner rights portray a person post trauma and not pre trauma. Let's admit Prison is pretty traumatic, it's not meant to be awesome. Why then do they portray these people as if they have rights and a need to be heard?

@momstheword11 9 жыл бұрын

follow the money, folks. it is more profitable to jail a kid; 90K per year per inmate to house a juvenile offender as opposed to 10K-15K to educate that child. yes, some children are very errant but this is not helping them to improve. someone is getting rich off this. also, how do half manage to commit suicide? what are they using? who is not watching? and are their organs being sold? follow the money.

@sophieroman5154 5 жыл бұрын

I agree 💯 I feel As this makes them worse 😷... putting a 15-16 yr old on solitary for months , years only makes them worse ... they build up anger mental issues !!! Then these “ kids / teenagers “ are released to freedom and 70% of them end up going back to prison !!

@Ava_Orchid 9 жыл бұрын

The same standards should apply to institutions. If a private citizen can not treat a person a certain way without repercussions than the institution should not be allowed to either. Of course there are exceptions to this and any rule. If the child is a direct and imminent danger to themselves or others than they simply can not be housed with others or without constant supervision. Just building future psychopaths and dangerous criminals dehumanizing people this way and then turning them loose on society. A child growing up in solitary will not become a responsible, caring, law abiding adult.

@mattortiz8141 5 жыл бұрын

God will judge all people the way they judge otherds

@belmarfranklin4318 9 жыл бұрын

Police and money go together so well!

@ryanfreeman5333 8 жыл бұрын

@quentin4221 7 жыл бұрын

They chose to do the job. they knew the dangers. no one put a gun to their heads and made them do it. Sorry if I don't show appreciation, but it is what it is.

@tidemover 9 жыл бұрын

They put kids in solitary confinement to protect the kids from the lifers who would rape ,rob, beat and kill them. So you need to fix that problem first. I have friends that did silly little stupid kid stuff and ended up at rikers . They were robbed and one was raped.

@fiercebandicoot 7 жыл бұрын

Those black dots he's talking about I know what he mean if you focus on nothing you can see a billion tiny dots I used to complain to my parents about when I was older but thanks to google user said it's micobactria in your eyes not sure how true this is tho because it goes in the same formation at all times lol

@mrnarason 9 жыл бұрын

this guy looks of someone I went to high school with, it pisses me off

@hyperloopbeats 2 жыл бұрын

05:25 - He's talking about black dots and says there are none. He is wrong. We all see black dots when we look up at something bright and stationary - those are veins and vessels in ohr eyes. As we get older, we see more and more black dots and they turn into catharsis or whatever its called. So he wasn't hallucinating. He just didnt know what he was seeing.

@wanggang3885 2 жыл бұрын

Is there ever a good reason for solitary? What if it’s to protect the inmate?

@nola305 3 жыл бұрын

"Commit FRACTIONS"?

@Rocco-yk6hl Жыл бұрын

Why do I like solitaire confinement must be crazy my eye sight is very bad from ten years looking at four walls . Also I do be confused in situations and conversation however I would not recommend the hole for most people I think that i am just weird i don’t like people they exhaust me with conversation it’s like every one is talking at once and the noise drives me mad

@carriebizz 8 жыл бұрын

Sorry but America is fucked up! Noway do kids teens or even adults get locked up here in Australia like they do in the US. I can't believe how many people are in prison in the US and half the people inside would not even be in prison in Australia at all or at the very least nowhere as long, it's insanity! These are kids let them out!

@didroaugustin2633 8 жыл бұрын

look at Russia dumbass, now stfu

@aidanplaysmc16gamingmore65 8 жыл бұрын

+Carrie Bizz Agree

@yootuubinatwerk 8 жыл бұрын

+Carrie Bizz look at thailand

@oceanstaiga5928 8 жыл бұрын

Let the kids out, get adults and do crimes again? I think These kids need help, but being locked up isnt helping them out in life

@chelsearudisill7312 8 жыл бұрын

The U.S. makes up 5% of the worlds population, yet we have 25% of the worlds prisoners. We incarcerate more of our citizens than any other country on earth. It's disgusting. It's all about PROFITS for the private prison industry.

@kevmack101 8 жыл бұрын

thank god i live in canada

@cody8190 6 жыл бұрын

are you an idiot or just fast asleep we have whole facilitys just for individuals under 18 how asleep are you clearly another person who just goes to his job an then comes home to absorb entertainment for hours what a life.... are you not even aware the american fbi shut down psych wards including ones for children in 2014 all across canada for crimes against humanity an experimentation

@sbh344 6 жыл бұрын

What you say Cody Lihou is very hard to believe.Got proof? Australia,New Zealand and Canada are among worlds best countries.. There is no doubt America is a shit country to be a native.

@tepo3766 6 жыл бұрын

I think that type of punishment is a little harsh. but at the same time you're dealing with extremely violent kids and even when they go to jail or prison they continue to be extremely violent and vicious so what we do.

@mattortiz8141 5 жыл бұрын

Not all people that go to solitary go for violent offenses.alot of the don't deserve that,if they think it's gonna help its only gonna make that person worse.especially at a young age.

@SlikySlim1990 5 жыл бұрын

Stop doing wrong.

@troyelliott390 Ай бұрын

Sharing

@danewing4658 3 жыл бұрын

It is gross how the officers justify it. They are worse than the cons. This is clearly counter productive, why cant they use the$ it cost for punishment and put it in preventitive measures. Such as counseling or basic human decencey. There needs to be a paradigm shift. You fight fire with fire, ya get double fire.

@rasleak8714 5 жыл бұрын

I personaly spent Many of months in there from child homes to adult prison im out here in the free world but my mind is still on my cell smh

@anjelinaidoo5321 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry dear. just know that God loves you and you are free. find a church and let your freedom mentality come out. We are our worst enemy cos we stay where God has freed us from. thats the devil.

@danewing4658 3 жыл бұрын

Also our brains are not developed until our early 20s we are social animals

@abhiishot2007 9 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately children are becoming intelligent so fast it is becoming difficult to to specify till what age a boy or a grl can called as a kid. Juveniles are regularly caught commiting crimes in my country. Anyone above age of 10 can change from a innocent boy or girl to a hardcore criminal very fast. Probably high divorce rate and borken marriages are the reasons why kids commit crimes.

@requiemforamerica8432 9 жыл бұрын

welfare system that allows unwed and uneducated young moms to have kids is a huge contributing factor in the rise of juvenile criminality

@requiemforamerica8432 9 жыл бұрын

Diane Steele the fact that they will be taken care of by the state makes everyone (young men and women) far less careful and less responsible.

@mpetersen4823 9 жыл бұрын

NoName NoFame Welfare is not the problem. The problem is the fact that often contraception is not included in healthcare which results in more pregnancies. However an even bigger factor is the lack of sex-ed in schools (at least in the USA).

@requiemforamerica8432 9 жыл бұрын

Magnus Petersen welfare is most definitely the problem - and condoms are NOT expensive.

@upthesnatch7990 9 жыл бұрын

so delinquent kids are "intelligent, " ?

@DavidDavida 8 жыл бұрын

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@ryanfreeman5333 8 жыл бұрын

@bedazzlejuju 9 жыл бұрын

Love Santa Cruz....mwah!

@hatednyc 2 жыл бұрын

Dogs are better than humans though.

@cacopaul89 9 жыл бұрын

Tech did time there if I remember correctly

@streetfoodantoomuchbooze3937 9 жыл бұрын

that kid listens to drake way too much

@louihottalava9767 7 жыл бұрын

A lot of crime and violence happens in Rikers Island however, correction officers incite many of those violence. Some officers are bigger criminals than majority of the inmates.

@xxfroobxx 9 жыл бұрын

2:52 tease a muthafucka in juvenile hall

@1thess523 9 жыл бұрын

Are they innocent? The reason they are in jail is not because they can't afford bail it's because they have committed a crime! It's crazy how these people over look the "why" they are in there! That's why this world is all backwards because people like these don't want to address the actual problem of why they are in there in the first place.

@kedim2353 9 жыл бұрын

1thess523 Did you not listen in the programme??? U dumb...most of the kids that land up in solitary confinement as the Commissioner said, was because they could not afford bail. Its not because they were charged with a crime or sentenced of yet...goodness!!!

@1thess523 8 жыл бұрын

***** Yes I have 3 children who are awesome and who were disciplined for their bad behavior. They have been taught that if they do what it wrong there are consequences and do you know what happens after that? They usually didn't do it again, as they got older i no longer had to discipline them because they stopped that bad behavior. Did you hear of that case that just happened the "afluenza kid" (not sure if I spelled it right), well there was a rich kid who killed i believe 4 people and his mother or lawyer said it wasn't his fault because he was rich and never learned about consequences so he shouldn't be punished. So he and his mother fled to Mexico and were recently caught, that's pretty messed up right? Well you don't have to be rich to create someone like that kid you can let them go about their life never answering for the wrong they have done till ine day they take it too far. If you have children i hope they are some kind of miracle children that can turn out right without being disciplined!

@chelsearudisill7312 8 жыл бұрын

The U.S. only makes up 5% of the worlds population yet has 25% of the worlds prisoners. We incarcerate more of our citizens than any other country on earth. It's about PROFIT for ths private prison industry. It's disgusting. You need to look up the KIDS FOR CASH scandal - a PA judge was being paid off by a private juvenile detention center to throw kids in jail for the most trivial things. He ruined a lot of young lives, one even committed suicide. His ass is paying for his disgusting greed now - in prison where HE belongs. We need to do away with private prisons.

@chelsearudisill7312 8 жыл бұрын

You have to think, "does the punishment fit the crime?" In too many cases the answer is NO. We should be locking people up that we're afraid of, afraid to have in society, not people we're just mad at. If you lock people up for trivial shit, in prison is where they learn how to be a real criminal.

@1thess523 8 жыл бұрын

Chelsea_ Pitbullm0m but the people that aren't punished for their crime continue to do crime and sometimes lead to bigger crimes. It's like the spoiled brat that keeps doing bad and never gets punished then they realize "hey i want to see how far i can take this"

@MrHeatscore94 8 жыл бұрын

13:00 ummmm the pound.......

@hirotakanata1028 8 жыл бұрын

Use asian wisdom like confusius said a trouble maker can only learn when a elder shows him instead let elders give them lessons not locking them in cells for 8 hours a day

@chuckd5877 7 жыл бұрын

Yes because everything is that simple

@aidanplaysmc16gamingmore65 8 жыл бұрын

+Grizzly907LA Agree

@Pabeloz 9 жыл бұрын

their fault for doing illegal shit in the first place

@mpetersen4823 9 жыл бұрын

Ofcours it is, but at the same time it is the governments duty to help them rehabilitate and not torture them (Which in the end only makes them even less fit for society)

@Hmonks 9 жыл бұрын

pabyo of course they should end up in prison for a year for just smoking weed. It seem like some people don't understand the meaning of freedom.

@commonsense31 6 жыл бұрын

They are underage. They are kids. So you can put kids in isolation but you still have to be 21 to buy a fucking beer

@wilhelminavanputten1279 8 жыл бұрын

Not ignorance at all guns are their biggest passion

@Octobermory 9 жыл бұрын

Why don't they do what the progressive Chinese prison system is doing? Give them good jobs - a chance to work in modern assembly lines within a locked down environment. That way, they are not solitary and they get a chance to contribute something valuable to the labour economy. Mass prison contribution can generate billions of dollars in profit that can be channelled to the good of society.

@sarahmacdonald5405 7 жыл бұрын

I've worked in group homes/facilities with kids with extreme behavioural issues. Until you experience how aggressive and violent some "kids" can be, and watch co workers have eyes jabbed with pencils, break and threaten staff with glass, spend hours blocking punches and objects being thrown at your head, screamed at for an hour straight with the most vile language, then you'll have a different opinion on how to best deal with this type of aggression, because the alternative is alot of injury and even death in some cases at the hands of these "kids" to the people who are just trying to care for them.

@Jeffs20077 7 жыл бұрын

Jessica MacDonald it is still not right. As some people describe it, they are ticking time bombs because of solitary. How would you like it if someone locked you in a 20 by 10 foot room with no human contact except at mealtimes? I would guess you and I would go crazy. They should have more alternative ways to punish a child. Or they could have some therapy.

@sarahmacdonald5405 7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Mao okay. Then why don't you go and try some talk therapy with these kids. You'll change your mind real fast.

@Jeffs20077 7 жыл бұрын

Jessica MacDonald I agree with you. You must have seen a lot in order for you to reach this opinion. However, solitary is not the answer.

@sarahmacdonald5405 7 жыл бұрын

They are a risk to their peers too. They attack eachother. Until you are in the field, it's impossible to understand.

@sarahmacdonald5405 7 жыл бұрын

The alternative is physically restraining the kids constantly, which some would argue is even more phychologically damaging.

@MrHeatscore94 8 жыл бұрын

I think solitary should be reserved for pedos and rapists. and a punishment for other prisoners for a short time if they miss behave...

@ArtistProtagonist 9 жыл бұрын

Why did they put drake in a box?? :( Obviously he needs new friends

@XTHEKEVINATORX 9 жыл бұрын

All the kids deserve it. In fact I think prison is too kind. They should make them work a full time job for their food. Just like every other working class citizen.

@cacopaul89 9 жыл бұрын

***** loleelol

@eaglelizeranomaly8636 9 жыл бұрын

Murica, fuck yeah!

@Grizzly907LA 8 жыл бұрын

If you're old enough to do the crime then you can do the time. These are not kids by the way. Some of them are 7 ft tall by the time they are 15, and strong as hell. I have no problem with putting savages like this in a cage. The difference between these savages and a dog is the fact that a dog is obedient and will take correction as you train it.

@Jeremiah11Tech 8 жыл бұрын

+Grizzly907LA what are you a midget lol?

@chelsearudisill7312 8 жыл бұрын