Rehabilitation is gone
Juveniles sentenced to institutions no longer receive offers of help, only punishment, according to Jerry Agee, former Director of the Colorado Division of Youth Services, who retired after 42 years of trying to ensure the system did not loose its focus on helping. “Now we fill up more and more prisons. It used to be we couldn’t put a juvenile in a jail. Now we lock kids up we would never have locked up in years past....