This article discusses how children in Minneapolis are placed in juvenile detention facilities for lack of a better place to put them. According to the article, children who are not charged with any crime account for one-fifth of juvenile detention center population.
Child advocates state that detention facilities are lacking in psychological support that the children need, and children face punishments that are no longer deemed as acceptable. Minnesota state Rep. Joe Mullery notes that “Sending kids to incarceration, when they haven’t even committed a crime, has proved to end up making them hardened criminals.”