STUDY: Half of Jailed NYC Youths Have Brain Injury

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

STUDY: HALF OF JAILED NYC YOUTHS HAVE BRAIN INJURY

By JAKE PEARSON
— Apr. 18, 2014 3:14 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — About half of all 16- to 18-year-olds coming into New York City's jails say they had a traumatic brain injury before being incarcerated, most caused by assaults, according to a new study that's the latest in a growing body of research documenting head trauma among young offenders.

Experts say the findings, published this week in The Journal of Adolescent Health, could lead to better training for correction officers on how to deal with the possible symptoms of such trauma, which include problems with impulse control and decision-making.

"You need to train the correction officers to understand brain injuries so that when somebody may be acting rude or answering back or forgetting what they're supposed to do, it's not a sign of maladaptive misbehavior or disrespect, it's a sign of a brain injury," said Wayne Gordon, a brain injury expert at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.

The peer-reviewed study was based on medical brain injury questionnaires given to 300 boys and 84 girls inside the nation's second-largest jail system in 2012.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/study-half-jailed-nyc-youths-have-brain-injury

[Garion_55]

1. cops are barely smart enough not to shoot themselves

some of them anyway http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/calif-tv-station-films-dog-calmly-playing-with-kids-after-cop-shoots-himself-trying-to-kill-it/

the cops dont hire smart guys. people who spend lots of time thinking. those guys dont make good soldiers which is what police are these days. they morphed from andy griffith to terminator.

they dont want to help brain damaged kids they want to find a reason to bust them and throw them on the ground and charge them with resisting while 3 cops are tasing the crap out of that kid because that what cops are trained to do and how they get paid.

[frylock]

3. word up

[Warpy]

2. They found the same thing among adult offenders some years ago

that the rate of TBI was very high for offenders, especially violent offenders. I don't know which is the cart and which is the horse, but it should have implications for how guards respond to all the shit they have to eat.

[mopinko]

4. we need to get to neurology=>culpability

at any age, but most especially for juveniles.

[Mondavi]

6. Neither ourr for-profit prison system nor our police will be interested...

[greiner3]

7. "STUDY: HALF OF JAILED NYC YOUTHS HAVE BRAIN INJURY"

And half of the injuries happened AFTER incarceration.

[olddad56]

8. if they didn't have problems prior to incarceration, they will afterward.

maybe hot physical brain injury, but I would suspect a high rate of PTSD. Even going to jail for a weekend is a traumatic experience for most people.

[Herself]

9. when children are abused, they are forgotten once the

victimizer is caught.

Mental health care is not a priority in this country.