Guess I should have posted this under Organizing since I believe that the injustice done to JSOs by the current AWA and the registry is a place to start because anyone with teenagers knows teen make mistakes (sometimes sexual mistakes) and even the courts recognize that kids should be held less culpable than mature adults for their mistakes and are the ones most likely to change if given proper direction/ treatment and not simply thrown on the waste pile, sent to adult SO prisons, placed on the registry and shunned for life. (Oh, I know "they say" SO's can apply to get off but...18 + 25 (years of systematic abuse-by-supervision) = ??? And if these Private Juvenile SO treatment "facilities: become the next cash cow what then? Just another name for "civil" commitment from cradle to grave?
The fact that no one on Daily Strength even know anything about this stuff seems to be reason enough that we ought to start the conversation no matter where we live!

Juvenile Sex Offender Treatment "Facilities" and Private fror profit Prison corporations
Posted on 09/27/15, 01:47 pm
I am especially concerned about system accountability for the treatment of JSO's ( aka kids that make (sexual) mistakes and end up in JSO prisons/ private run for-profit treatment "facilities" because as every one knows these types of ADULT prisons are NOT accountable to anyone and by calling themselves juvenile "treatment" facilities they have another layer of un-accountability (HIPPA and the fact that these are minors many of them under court jurisdiction)

CASE IN POINT: Right now Idaho has a "treatment facility" at a former job Corps site outside of mountain Home Idaho run by some "private" operator. The take JSO's from all over the US. One of the things that concerns me about this particular private facility (the info I have Googled says they take between 12 and 18 (however I know someone who goes in there and that person says there are young kids in there from 8 through 19)

Anyway, Idaho Gazette is currently reporting a scandal with private prisons for adults so it makes me think....
Does any one from any where posting on Daily Strength have a child in this facility out side of Mountain Home? Has anyone heard anything about private corporations morphing over into private JSO prisons AKA treatment facilities? Do we know of any one, any family members dealing with Privately run for profit prisons in other states and the name of the corporations running them.?

Please provide links, comments, ANY info in any state It is important that we as families and as families of JSO's not have even more collateral Damage to deal with in the cases of our children.