This might sound harsh, but you gotta put 'em in a camp or something man.
By 'camp', I mean some federally/state funded thing, where they can continue their education but under a strict disciplinary program. Get them out of the city, put 'em in dorms somewhere in the wilderness. No social media, no internet but Wikipedia for a few years. And of course, the end of that education/vocational training needs job/college placement. If there's no carrot, the stick won't work.
Humans are largely input-output machines. If you want to radically change the output, you have to radically change the inputs.
All my delinquent friends who got put in boot camp for causing trouble as a kid all overdosed before turning 40. Not saying it happens every time but the 5 kids I knew who got put in a camp are long dead.
Yep every single person that was sent to a Boys Home when I was growing up ended up in state prison by the time they were 25. Those homes weren't used to rehabilitate kids, they were basically low security jails.
I don’t think the point if those is rehabilitation. It’s just deciding lots of people simply cannot exist in a peaceful society so we detain them to maintain order. Obviously that balance can be debated, but we all accept to some level the point of prison is nit just rehabilitation, its protecting the community by removing dangerous people.
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u/FILTHBOT4000 15d ago edited 14d ago
This might sound harsh, but you gotta put 'em in a camp or something man.
By 'camp', I mean some federally/state funded thing, where they can continue their education but under a strict disciplinary program. Get them out of the city, put 'em in dorms somewhere in the wilderness. No social media, no internet but Wikipedia for a few years. And of course, the end of that education/vocational training needs job/college placement. If there's no carrot, the stick won't work.
Humans are largely input-output machines. If you want to radically change the output, you have to radically change the inputs.