NYTimes: Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars)

An article in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristoph discusses the "horrors that unfold in American prisons — especially juvenile correctional facilities — on a far larger scale than at Guantánamo."

What can we do about this?

For one thing, we can keep an eye on them. There is no reason that juvenile detention facilities should be under the strictest surveillance, including video.

Parents should be allowed to know what is happening to their children - especially with whom they are sleeping at night- even when the children are in detention facilities. Do parents give up their rights when their children go to jail? Does DSS give up its role?

From The New York Times:

OP-ED COLUMNIST: Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars)

A good starting point to rehabilitate young offenders is to stop the
criminal abuse many of them endure in correctional facilities.

http://s.nyt.com/u/tLW

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