: About Me

For those looking to enter the field of juvenile corrections, I would like you to remember one thing: These are KIDS. Usually, between 10 and 18 years old. Not just "pot heads," "taggers," and "gang bangers;" they are kids. It becomes easy to sort them into categories; to place simple, concise labels in front of their names. But just remember that the delinquent you see today may have just yesterday been sitting in his 9th grade Chemistry class, no more "delinquent" than the student next to him. He may have made one mistake, had one lapse in judgment, one "oops." Or, maybe he has made 100 ...