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On 18 Jan 2005 16:06:30 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:

As far as humanitarian horrors, last week's news reported that in New
Jersey, kids charged with minor offenses are often placed in maximum
security juvenile prisons while being "processed". Many end up so
traumatized that they're unable to function normally in society. Onto the
bombing list with New Jersey.

That's called "scared straight". It works.

Dave

It's called anal rape and sodomy.

"Scared straight" is when you take convicts into schoolhouses, etc, and have
them describe the horrors of prison life to the kids.

Witnessing the horrors first hand is a bit more influential than
glazing over as someone talks about them.

It has nothing to do with
throwing *accused* juvenile offenders in with convicted, sex-starved, deviant
felons.

Yes, that's a bit extreme. But often by locking up (Supervised of
course) juvie-criminal-wannabees, you can often give them a taste of
what they can expect "on the inside". That is really the definition of
"scared straight". There have been places that have tried this. I'll
have to dig around and see if I can remember where....

Dave