Nowadays, youngsters are involved in an of lot crimes in society which warrants a jail term. It has been suggested that they should not be put in the same cell as grown-ups for certain reasons, and I completely agree with the opinion. This essay will discuss why these two groups of persons should not be locked together.
Teenagers should not be confined in the same area as adults in a correctional facility for several reasons. Firstly, they may get abused and assaulted in the prison, due to the fact that when older inmates are kept with younger ones, they tend to feel a sense of superiority and may begin to abuse the little ones. For example, a case like this was reported at a Prison in Nigeria, where a nineteen years old boy was beaten to a coma by oldsters in the same space for refusing to wash their clothes. In addition, some of them end up getting molested sexually, which would not have been so if they had separate rooms.
Furthermore, a lot of adolescents may come down with behavioural problems if allowed to stay with people above their age group, because some may end up picking bad habits and learn antisocial behaviours from these seniors and may even come out from jail worse than how they went it. For instance, studies in the past decades have revealed that about 70% of youths who were convicted came out worse than they were before going to jail, as a result, society, continues to suffer. Also, some of them have reported being cajoled by these persons into engaging in practices such as smoking.
In conclusion, I think it is safer and wiser for prisons to have different cells for adults and youths.
Nowadays, youngsters
are involved
in an of lot crimes in society which warrants a jail term. It has
been suggested
that they should not
be put
in the same cell as grown-ups for certain reasons, and I completely
agree
with the opinion. This essay will discuss why these two groups of persons should not
be locked
together.
Teenagers
should not
be confined
in the same area as adults in a correctional facility for several reasons.
Firstly
, they may
get
abused and assaulted in the prison, due to the fact that when older inmates are
kept
with younger ones, they tend to feel a sense of superiority and may
begin
to abuse the
little
ones.
For example
, a case like this
was reported
at a Prison in Nigeria, where a nineteen years
old
boy
was beaten
to a coma by oldsters in the same space for refusing to wash their clothes.
In addition
,
some
of them
end
up getting molested
sexually
, which would not have been
so
if they had separate rooms.
Furthermore
,
a lot of
adolescents may
come
down with
behavioural
problems if
allowed
to stay with
people
above their age group,
because
some
may
end
up picking
bad
habits and learn antisocial
behaviours
from these seniors and may even
come
out from jail worse than how they went it.
For instance
, studies in the past decades have revealed that about 70% of youths who
were convicted
came out worse than they were
before
going to jail,
as a result
, society, continues to suffer.
Also
,
some
of them have reported
being cajoled
by these persons into engaging in practices such as smoking.
In conclusion
, I
think
it is safer and wiser for prisons to have
different
cells for adults and youths.