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This article about how fewer teens are being sent to juvenile prisons (https://is.gd/bvSSpF) cites a study that proves the harm of incarcerating them even briefly (https://tinyurl.com/33c3fxn6) - notwithstanding conservative clichés about "tough love," being "scared straight," the value of "consequences," etc.
This article about how fewer teens are being sent to juvenile prisons (https://is.gd/bvSSpF) cites a study that proves the harm of incarcerating them even briefly (https://tinyurl.com/33c3fxn6) - notwithstanding conservative clichés about "tough love," being "scared straight," the value of "consequences," etc.
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That study's conclusive findings may be specific to the awfulness of juvie. Then again, it may be just one more piece of evidence challenging the value of punishment itself - the idea that deliberately making kids suffer to teach them a lesson can ever produce good results: https://tinyurl.com/yzuamfc8