The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. During college, I was privileged to work at a detention center for juveniles.

The director of the facility had it down to a science. To this day there has never been an assault on a staff member OR a fellow inmate. Kids are only allowed to speak to each other in the presence of a detention officer, and that's only at meals and during recreation prior to going to bed. Sure, we had to restrain kids, but it was for their own safety. The restraints were soft and they were put on to their bed, facility locked down, door open, and a detention office watched over them the entire time until they settled down. Then they were put into suicide bedding and a gown and were locked down until they'd had time to cool down, sleep and whatnot. They were brought out to eat and such. The kids were safe regardless of their behavior. They didn't have to worry about getting jumped by other kids or staff. We watched each other, we watched them. It was a great place for kids. Strict, but they got an education and they got good, homestyle-cooked, healthy meals and got attention from us that they didn't get from their parents. I fell in love with those kids and I was always happy to see them go back out into the world and was glad when they didn't come back. It is amazing the turn around kids can make when you give them a chance. I hope we instilled a little something in them that they didn't get from their parents: a little responsibility, a desire for an education and knowing that they were loved simply because they were amazing kids. It always makes me so sad when I see kids who never had a prayer with the hand they were dealt when it came to their families.
The boy in the OP, thank goodness his father found him. I hope the hospital was taking care of him. And I hope that dad has a really good atty, because if not, that kid is going to be right back where he started when he's healed. That is inexcusable. This for profit crap has got to stop. For profit health care, for profit prisons, etc. You cannot put a price on the head of a life and that is what they are doing. This is infuriating. We have got to get away from capitalism or it is going to be the end of human kind.