And how much youth lay uselessly buried behind these walls, what mighty powers were wasted here in vain? After all, one must tell the whole truth. These men were exceptional men. Perhaps they were the most gifted. Their mighty energies were vainly wasted abnormally, unjustly, hopelessly. And who was to blame, whose fault was it? That's just it, who is to blame?.
The number of people under the age of 18 arrested daily in our country may astound some. In 1990, there were more than 1.7 million juveniles arrested, and since then the numbers have nearly doubled, even though the vast majority of these arrests have been for non-violent offenses, and four percent has been for non-criminal offenses, such as truancy, curfew violations or running away from home. Only about twelve percent of all juvenile offenses are crimes against another person. Although it is important to note that only about 52% of these arrests result in jail time, it is still a significant amount of juveniles behind bars. All together our prison population is at two million inmates.
So what are our options then for these children? Every human being is different and therefore the way to deal with each person should vary. One option that has been gaining attention lately is .
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sending kids to prison boot camps. What is about these programs that both scare us and appeal to us? Is this the solution for these out of control kids. Is it time for us to stop babying these kids and try to toughen them up? We will try to understand the way that these prison boot camps work and to try to decide whether ultimately this method will bring the number of juvenile offenses down or maybe cause even more problems among these children.
So why do we need to even consider sending juvenile delinquents to boot camp? Why not just throw them in to jail? Well, firstly keeping someone in jail can cost taxpayers 30,000 dollars a year per inmate.
