The True Face of a Young Criminal

The True Face of a Young Criminal In the book True Notebooks by Mark Salzman hands us the true minds of a Juvenile Hall who are going to be in prison for a long period of time. Youth have been tried as adults for even minor offences. California’s adult system has punishment of offenders as a goal, while juvenile justice system has a different goal, treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. Juvenile Justice system has a broad of many methods and programs for addressing juvenile crime, taking into account the severity of the offense and the background of the offender. These include treatment programs, detention, incarceration, and community supervision. Since the Juvenile System goals is rehabilitation; they include school, social services agencies and community organizations. Most of the Juveniles Halls are overcrowded, mainly with juveniles being held for violent offenses, juvenile halls may accept only the most violent arrestees, turning away most other arrestees. If the offender is placed in juvenile hall the probation department and the district attorney can choose to file a “petition” with the juvenile court, which is similar to filling charges in adult court. The district attorney may request that the juvenile be “remanded” to adult court because the juvenile is “unfit” to be adjudicated as a juvenile due to the nature of his or her offense and a juvenile convicted in adult court, the offender can be sentenced and be placed in the Youth Authority until the age of 24. I do not believe in the Juvenile Justice System because they do not care if the juvenile rehabilitated and learned from the punishment, they do not give the opportunity and the chance to make them prove they change, the only people who believes on them are the people inside of the facility helping them to find themselves.Xnice intro here overall; could be 2 paragraphs, and could get to the point more quickly. After a young person commits a crime, he will be send directly to the juvenile and they need the opportunity to be heard and the opportunity to prove they change. Unfortunately the system do not let them because the message they get from the juvenile is “that [“kids”] are garbage (…) It tells them that they just simply wants to dispose them. It’s obscene. [And the system] give up on rehabilitation (…)” (Salzman, 26) The system has lost the hope of the rehabilitation and went they sentence them, they do not count on how much they have been change. If the juvenile system could see how much the rehabilitation help this kids, they will help them to succeed and to become someone and no a piece of garbage. Instead of supporting them, “they don’t teach [them] anything (…) They just baby [them] around (…) all [they] can think about is the mistake [they] made (…) (Salzman, 99). The system should treat them like a teenagers, not babies, they made a mistake just like everyone else, but more aggravated, in which a human being is capable to understand and comprehend of what they did wrong and not to do it again. They just need help and people to believe on them. I have a friend of mine that he was on the juvenile for punching a classmate almost to dead because of the gang thing. He graduated from high school on the juvenile and made everything he could to get out from the juvenile early and to prove the system that he had change and learned from his mistake. Her mother told me that when she visited him, she saw that he changed that he was not the same anymore because now he had a purpose in life to go to college and be someone in life. When his trial came up, the persecutor of the victim convicted him fifteen years on adult prison without parole.Xpowerful story!! this is worth creating an entirel new paragraph for, and showing that True Notebooks is in line with your experience, or some stronger point about this example from your life. We could see his tears coming out but the Judge just agreed with the persecutor and all his rehabilitation was in vane to the system and him. While I found that the victim was a gang member and never graduate from high school.Xexplain in context of the thesis; change the system or not? The system has different rehabilitation programs and one of them is a writing class, in which the professors are volunteers. This people are the ones who believe on them and see them progress on the way to find themselves. Xintroduce quote moreso, the context and reason for it.The kids “want to please adults, they want to fit in, they want to model themselves after someone they respect. It’s just had most of them have been brainwashed into thinking they aren’t capable of it” (Salzman, 27) The only opportunity that these kids have to see a person and follow them as a role model, were the volunteers because they did not treat them like trash, they treat them as people with feelings and goals. In the writing class was the place to become someone at the Juvenile Hall, in which they expressed themselves towards writing and demonstrated that they have talent. Mark SalzmanX, one of the volunteer teachers, believed that these criminals should not let them have another opportunity because of the crimes they made. Once he started teaching his mind completely change after interacting with young murders. He saw that this young man had feelings and that they have learned from the mistake they made and that now they wanted to prove that they changed and be someone in life. Xkey point! could rise to surface of paragraph or new paragraph to emphasize it.The English class in which Mark believed that it was helping them to think outside the jail and that they were capable of being someone. “ I want to thank you for making a dream come true. To see young people who feel they have no voices begin to find their voices. Your work has impresses us deeply, and it has already touched more people than you know (…) you must believe (…) that our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say.” (Salzman, 155)XI3 Sister Janet, another volunteer in the facility, encouraged the kids with this amazing speech, letting them know that they are someone, a human being with feelings and that have made mistakes in life just like everyone else in this world. She also encouraged them to keep going in life by not giving up their hopes and that the world needs them. People like Mark and Sister Janet have been transformed juveniles lives completely through love and believe.Xparagraph break here to highlight how this change in attitude can be transformative in other contexts (academic). I feel like I have been in jail through my college years because people have been putting me down for my writing skills. Every time that I wrote an essay or just a simple paragraph, I always got them wrong and no one supported and believed on me to get better, people would say that I was an awful and pointless writer. I was hopeless, I thought that I was never going to get out from “college imprisonment”, until I met one English teacher that believed on me and encouraged me that I was able to write. His encouragement was the key of my freedom, he told me that I was a deeply thinker and that every essay I wrote for his class I was improving, it made me feel like I could be someone in life.XI hope this is me, since I do believe this and I see it; you should see it too, in your e-portfolio and in your blog. Your writing has changed enormously and you have something very meaningful to say; be sure that you tie this idea back to the thesis, in some way, as I've suggested with the paragraph breaks. The Juvenile System is the one that has to put a mask on to the public, they can say they have so many programs for the juveniles so they can rehabilitated but according to them these kids can not change and be someone anymore, so they send them to adult prisons even if they are underage. The Juvenile System do not believe in their own mechanism, they just make the justice hopeless. I believe that the system just want to get rid of this kids without any opportunity to succeed in life and with no chance to let them prove that they change. The people who believe on them are few, but thanks to them this kids have become someone in life. We are all criminals because we speed in the high ways, we passed the red lights and we parked in prohibited areas; but like us, we have the opportunity to prove that we learned from our mistakes. These kids have the same rights because they are human beings like us.