Juvenile Detention Homes

O UR ideas and our concern about detention homes for juveniles are based on long experience. We have worked for years with young people in an office within a detention home, and also in a large city which gets along very well without such an institution. Besides this, we have had opportunity to observe many other detention homes, large and small, and often have had direct contact with those who are or who have been inmates. Consequently, we can very well sum up the administrative advantages of detention and, on the other hand, through direct knowledge we are well acquainted with the great disadvantages that accrue to individuals through detention

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