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lost opportunity to integrate troubled teens into main stream society.
Anti-social behavior is a treatable form of mental illnrss. The essential psychology of the child has been damaged by growing up in a dysfunctional environment (in school and in the home). The juvenile detention experience is an opportunity to instill essential social skills, culturally acceptable values and practical vocational training.
Such a program would require the discipline and intense supervision that is not unlike military basic training.