Punishing Mental Health Problems With Horrid Juvenile Justice; In Many States, This Is The Rule, Not The Exception. Thank the legal community for shining a light on the abhorrent conditions facing mentally troubled California youth. There’s good reason the Feds are denying California’s request to extend the time for compliance within their jails and prisons and this is a prime example of cruel discrimination against young people with disabilities. 14 years old, bipolar and placed in solitary for 22 1/2 hours daily for one hundred days. Read the whole article below. Mean people in a mean system denying general and special education to children that need it most. California, your justice systems just stink. What happened to you? The Romans didn’t treat their enemies much worse (stealing children’s futures). Pennsylvania just sentenced 2 judges to about 40 years (combined) in prison for getting rich on kickbacks from sending innocent youth into a privatized juvenile justice system that paid well. Many states have crappy results for the already damaged and often mentally unhealthy youth that get caught up in their juvenile justice systems. I’ve experienced this as a volunteer guardian ad-Litem in MN and if you search this site under “health and mental health” & “crime & courts” you will find dozens of examples of horrors perpetrated on children by the States. Many states are giving up on youth at younger and younger ages. Don’t look South. It would be far cheaper and more humane to pay daycare workers more and more attention to education, mental health, and other early childhood programs that would at least catch a few more of these kids before they end up damaged beyond repair and in unfeeling and underfunded justice systems across the nation. The State by nature has no empathy and without concern and direction from an engaged public, we can’t expect children to be treated well. The privatizing of group homes and justice needs to be done with great oversight as the financial incentives of doing the wrong thing outweigh the civil or humane urge to the do the right thing. - See more at: invisiblechildren.org/2013/08/11/punishing-mental-health-problems-with-horrid-juvenile-justice-in-many-states-this-is-the-rule-not-the-exception/#sthash.phOvg0IW.dpuf
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:54:20 +0000
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