Visitation: Can it do more for juvenile offenders?
According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the children in America to have mental health conditions. Many different reasons explain this disproportionate rate, including the removal of these juveniles from their social support systems. Kathryn Monahan wrote in The Effects of Visitation on Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders: How Contact with the Outside Impacts Adjustment on the Inside that when