Libraries for Juvenile Reformation Centers
I was just reading through an old issue of the Balitaan at Talakayan Ukol sa Bata, a quarterly newsletter of the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC).
One article was about the Molave Youth Home - the detention center for Juvenile offenders found behind the Quezon City Hall. The article described how 159 children, mostly 15 - 17 years old, live and serve sentence in a cramped area. Let me site a few sentences: "A fairly small crew of jail custodians, social workers, and teachers run Molave. The Department of Education, a third partner agency, has detailed six special education teachers to hold daily classes for children at two class sessions every day. A female deputy warden of Molave says most of the children take very positively to the classes."
The point of sharing this, actually, is: Won't these children be better off, if, while they are there ---- there's a library where they can READ?
The catch is, the area is already so cramped - it doesn't even have a sunning area where the children can have some daylight.
The title of this post has "Juvenile Reformation Centers" on it, but that is just a term I coined instead of writing "Detention Center." Current efforts in Juvenile Justice advocacy have yet to formalize the use of less offensive terms - but things are underway.
One article was about the Molave Youth Home - the detention center for Juvenile offenders found behind the Quezon City Hall. The article described how 159 children, mostly 15 - 17 years old, live and serve sentence in a cramped area. Let me site a few sentences: "A fairly small crew of jail custodians, social workers, and teachers run Molave. The Department of Education, a third partner agency, has detailed six special education teachers to hold daily classes for children at two class sessions every day. A female deputy warden of Molave says most of the children take very positively to the classes."
The point of sharing this, actually, is: Won't these children be better off, if, while they are there ---- there's a library where they can READ?
The catch is, the area is already so cramped - it doesn't even have a sunning area where the children can have some daylight.
The title of this post has "Juvenile Reformation Centers" on it, but that is just a term I coined instead of writing "Detention Center." Current efforts in Juvenile Justice advocacy have yet to formalize the use of less offensive terms - but things are underway.
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