Every year, throughout our country, approximately 70,000 juveniles are declared “wards of the State” and placed in one form of institution or another. The sad fact is that about 75% of those children will go on to become adult offenders. Why does this happen? More importantly, why does this continue to happen for decade after decade? Apparently the “intervention” steps that the professionals are attempting to perform are not working. What is the State, as the guardian of these children, doing wrong? Well, first of all, until the professionals admit that they are doing something wrong, nothing will change. And, unless you believe that all these children are simply fatally flawed from birth, then the statistics clearly show that the State and the professionals are, indeed, doing something wrong. But treatment of juveniles can’t change until the professionals get an understanding of what the kids are thinking and how they are processing what is being done. Unfortunately, it is not likely that the kids are going to tell them.
This book is a first person narrative of a teenager caught up in the Juvenile Justice system.
