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    problem. The video “Prison State”‚ a documentary by PBS Frontline‚ shows the problem Kentucky has with more inmates in jail. The states spends a lot of money to lock up prisoners. The state alone spends 50 million dollars annually on locking up juveniles. It also cost 87 thousand dollars to incarcerate a child. The video focuses mainly on a neighborhood in Louisville‚ Kentucky called Beecher Terrace. According to the video‚ the state of

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    stop to drinking and driving. Another big step law enforcement is taking is setting up check points on the interstates or sometimes in town. This action has helped slow down drinking and driving‚ and is also helping cut down on innocent accidents. Juvenile smoking is very illegal because the children are under age. In most all states the legal age to smoke or buy cigarettes is 18. This meaning if you want to smoke or buy them you have to be 18 with a valid I.D. To prove that person is of age. First

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    Setting -the book holes takes place in a juvenile detention center that is in a lake in Texas. Most of the story is in the end of the 1990’s. There are flashbacks of Green Lake‚ which existed hundreds of years earlier before the lake dried up. Question 10 Stanly is the main character of this book His family has a history of bad luck‚ Stanley is wrongfully convicted of stealing sneakers but zero is the actual boy that stole them‚ and is sent to the detention center‚ Camp Green Lake. He arrives there

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    Include: Work Area‚ Typical Hours‚ Stress Level‚ Etc The working environment of a substance abuse counselor can vary. Most counselors work in hospitals‚ residential treatment facilities‚ and Government facilities‚ including prisons or juvenile detention centers. The workplace is often challenging. This will require stress management and trauma coping skills. A typical substance abuse counselor can expect to work full time‚ and experience high caseloads. D. Education a. Indicate

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    makes me feel best about being a coach.” (USA Today) In that I think that sports is an aspect of life that can be used as a tool to guide children/young adults down a path that leads towards success. Beginning a football program at the Kilpatrick detention center showed this impact of guidance due to the proper leadership of Coach Porter. He valued the lives of the young detainees and sought to make them better individuals by giving them worth through football. Therefore in the end‚ it all depends on

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    research and make sure that is what you want. The corrections program was similar to law enforcement‚ so I switched to the correction alternative because I still wanted to be associated with law enforcement. I was hired on at a juvenile detention center as a juvenile correction officer. I thought that this was my opportunity to do something to help these kids‚ don’t get me wrong I did not think I could help or save the world‚ I just thought I would or could make a difference in one life that it

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    According to Nate Balis the director of juvenile’s justice strategy group he stated that “ incarceration of juveniles is not helping the community stop a person to stop committing crime it persuades them to keep doing what they’re doing and don’t care about life at all.” (Balis) The second finding I found on pretrial justice is that the justice system has problem

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    Program for Youth This article is about a high school counselor who realizes the struggles of students who are involved in the transition from the juvenile system into adulthood. The students range from having an emotional disorder to being incarcerated to getting out of a juvenile detention center to having a learning disability in a school setting. The couselor has decided that a school-based mentoring program will help ease students with transitioning back to their

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    involving the client and helping process. The significance of the interview process initiates effective case management and entails direction of the client’s goals (Kyser‚ 2014). Alyssa is a teenage adolescent girl that was brought into the Juvenile Detention Center by the police. The case manager asks Alyssa to‚ please fill out the form in her office‚ so that she can assist Alyssa. She identifies that she likes to fight other teenagers on the intake form. However‚ Alyssa does not discuss the current

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    reckless and stupid things that can potentially hurt not only themselves but others around them. Many say that it is wrong to lock a minor up in a juvenile detention center simply because they are too “young” and “don’t know any better”. Kids‚ Teens especially‚ are old enough to know what is right or not and I believe serving time in a juvenile center is the right course of action to teach them a lesson. The problem though is not all parents are teaching their children the difference

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