I wish I could say more about juvanile justice on this forum, unfortunatley, I need to keep my job......needless to say , I can give you guys a brief over view of what is happening Australia wide.
These little criminals, "children" the system call them, commit some very serious crimes.
They then go to detention centres, where their supervisors school them, and do gooders take them on excursions, like shopping centres etc, not every day, but as a reward for good (normal) behaviour. Then they play up when they don, t get their own way, to the point where the supervising staff sometimes get hurt by these "children" . When the staff use force to protect them selves, the "children, s" lawyer (liars) get involved, and the kids bad behaviour is rewarded with a victims of crime compensation pay out, and the nasty staff member who was hurt by the 17 yo "child" is reduced in rank or loses his/her job and is not entitled to victims of crime pay out, just workers comp. I know of 4 cases where these "kids" have recieved big pay outs, Up to 50k and the staff members have been disciplined.
I was a paratrooper before I turned 18, just to put it into perspective, but the law says he is a child.
I have not been injued by these kids myself, however I will say that I have worked as a corrections officer for nearly 9 years, in maximum security, down to minimum, and I have never experienced violence or behaviour as bad as the poor buggers in juvanile justice do.
I wish I could go into more detail, but its a very touchy subject, but I can say that Australia was founded as Prison, and 250 years later, we travel over seas to learn how prisons there work, we buy into a system that dosnt work there and try to make it work here, our country is run by idiots.
