Children in the World's Prison

Miserably, numerous states across the globe have disregarded the dysfunction and crisis that forms child delinquency and instead have imperiled kids to additional abuse and persecution in the adult criminal justice system. Over numerous countries including America, a large number of children have been passed to judgment as adults and sent to adult custodial. Surprisingly, eight-year-old individuals have been put on trial as adults. According to some interveners such as Eji, there should be no young ones under the age of fourteen should be put in prison as an adult for any crime and that justice system should work on to prohibit underage prosecution. According to the researches done in the United States concerning Children in Prison, approximately ten thousand individuals ate housed in adult prisons and jails on any specified day (Porter, 2015).

Prison is a harsh environment for the children despite the fact that caregivers ensure that they protect them to ease their situation. Some children in prison are not told about their mothers or parents as the guards need to protect them and make them adapt to their present condition. Ultimately, the children get more confused and make them perceive that it is shameful being in prison since their caregivers are too humiliated, unable and unwilling to reveal it. It even gets worse when both the children and their parents are put in custodial. In these instances, the children lack parental guidance when one is released and may end up committing a crime and thus being returned to the prison harsh environment again.

All the children are universal worldwide. Federal laws lay the platform incorporating child welfare programs giving the basis that provide structure and guidance protecting the child welfare practices. Argument According to researchers, more than two hundred young individuals some of which are twelve years old are housed in police cells while undergoing mental health crises over the recent years due to lack of health institution beds (Meiners, 2016). There is great damage to the young children’s mental health having been left unprotected, isolated and feeling they have not done any crime when they are undergoing mental disorder. They get afraid, sometimes they are chained or handcuffed, they lack ways of contacting their families and they are housed with other individuals who may be violent or drunk.