Reply #12: This is really bad [View All]

[noonwitch]

When they use private agencies to treat delinquents, they really need to make sure that the agencies are good ones. I used to be a delinquency worker, and we had good places and bad places. The worst was the county-run youth home, the state facilities were much better, as were the private agencies the state contracted with at that time.

An example from the youth home, not from my load, but a coworker's:

A young cross-dresser was arrested and booked for shoplifting. Standard admitting procedure was to give the kid a physical exam, body search and have him change his clothes to the sweats/uniform prior to being brought to the unit he will be placed in until his hearing, for obvious security reasons. The staff had a problem with cross dressers and decided to teach him a lesson by marching him, in drag, through the residential units prior to the admitting process.
So, the kid got the you know what beat out of him later by the other kids.