My first Youth Development event was a stress night at
Bristol County House of Corrections and Jail. I went to this stress night
because my boyfriend is in the academy to become a corrections officer and they
had a stress night to talk about the stresses of the job and to tour the
facility. While I was touring the facility and saw some of the inmates I kept
thinking to myself about how they got here.
The section Schools
in the Costello reading kept running through my mind while walking through the
facility. The Schools section speaks
about the programs and resources in schools and the conflicts between what youths
need and what the schools are able to provide. If the men and women in this facility
had programs in their schools growing up maybe they would not be incarcerated now.With schools being least accountable to students many students fall through the cracks and the unfortunate reality is that some end up in facilitates like Bristol County House of Corrections.
While in Bristol County House of Corrections these men and
women have educational, vocational, religious and inmate work programs as well
as substance abuse and counseling that they are able to participate in while incarcerated.
With these programs are in place so the inmates are able to better themselves and have
a better chance to be successful once they get out.
I went to this stress night to see where my boyfriend is going to be working and not as one of my events. But while there it made me
think of the youth advocacy, counseling and probation aspect of youth
development. There are many young people incarcerated and just because they are
in a facility does not mean they do not need our help both while they are there and when returning to society.
This is an article
about the imperativeness to transform juvenile justice
systems into
effective educational systems
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