Juvenile Corrections

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Juvenile Corrections
Juvenile corrections refer to high-security facilities in which minors sentenced by the court for committing a felony or other serious misdemeanors are kept in safe custody so as to be rehabilitated. The main aim of the correction programs in these facilities is to help in providing the youth with an opportunity to learn new coping as well as social skills to handle situations better and prevent them from becoming repeat offenders (Smith). The stay in these correction centers is usually long-term ranging from months to years as there is court approval for the detention. The best correction facilities usually focus on mentoring and education to the inmates i.e. they focus on the social and emotional development, and not just punishments.

Numerous individuals expect that the facilities for juvenile correction are the same as prison or jail, besides the common fact that they are for rehabilitating juveniles instead of grown-ups. The assumption is incompletely valid in that numerous of these facilities are like grown-up detainment facilities. Detainees are kept and must always stay in their confinement areas. They likewise must comply with strict guidelines and do difficult work as a component of assuming liability for their actions. While like detainment facilities, adolescent correctional centers are additionally altogether different in a couple of ways. For one, they are not implied for long haul …