solved Review the Marion, Ohio facility (now closed) and comment using

Review the Marion, Ohio facility (now closed) and comment using the end questions in the discussion board. 
Three basic goals

Obedience/conformity
Reeducation/development
Treatment

Overall objective in most – safe secure and humane environment. Official Description – Marion Juvenile Correctional Facility (MaJCF) is an American Correctional Association (ACA) accredited facility located in Marion, Ohio.
The facility’s 12 housing units can accommodate various population needs. The Chemical Dependency Unit provides a treatment focus that strives to break the dependency cycle that leads to felonious behavior. The Transition Unit assists youth to prepare for a successful reintegration into society. The Behavior Intervention Unit (BIU) enables the housing and management of youth who have difficulty conforming to agency rules and regulations, therefore causing a threat to themselves and to facility security. There is also an Intensive Mental Health Unit to address the unique treatment needs of this population. All of the residents are male. Marion’s accredited Hickory Grove High School provides a diverse curriculum encouraging youth to achieve high school graduation. The school also provides several vocational opportunities such as warehousing and distribution, barbering, auto mechanics, office technology, graphics communications, and horticulture. Graduates are provided actual work experience that will translate into employment opportunities upon release
My Visit to Marion
Marion is trying to enrich their offerings to juveniles. The following is a little background on the facility. They are the juvenile facility in Ohio where the worst juveniles are sent. Most have a history of serious crimes, many of those violent. The juveniles generally are older. The facility has some dorm style rooms but it also has many traditional single cells. The single cells face a central room where the juveniles watch television and yell out at each other. During the daytime the juveniles are given time to go eat, exercise and take part in school and/or vocational training. There is a very strict schedule. I observed juveniles marching back and forth from their housing to breakfast and school.  
The facility does have a high school that offers high school diplomas and GED’s. Most of the students are processed out of the facility within a year. Because they rotate out it is difficult for the juveniles to get a high school diploma. Many take classes and move on. The school is focused on getting students a GED. Teachers are brought in from outside the school. Some have been assaulted, but most appear to be dedicated to the students. Students lose their education rights if they display conduct problems.
Vocational activities as I saw them included the building trade, auto mechanics, computer usage, graphic design and barbering. A closer look at the vocational activities reveals the following: computer usage is tied closely to school. Individuals get to work on the various programs that one generally comes across in an office. The programs are stand alone and are not tied into the working components of the facility. The graphic design department is responsible for printing fliers and such for the prison. The printers are tied into several computers. The building trades shop consists of students learning to build walls. The walls are built using materials supplied at no cost to the facility. After the students build the walls they stop. The walls are torn down (the remnants were in a pile when I visited) and then new walls are rebuilt in the same spot. No other projects are attempted and the prison can’t sell barns or other built projects because the wood is donated. In auto mechanics three donated cars were in the garage area. The vehicles have never been driven after they entered the shop. Students take turns changing the oil, rotating tires, doing some engine work and changing the oil. Students remove clean oil they likely put in before and change brakes that have never been used. The lug nuts are wearing out due to excessive tire rotation. Cars in the state motor pool are not brought in for service due to regulations. Most of the juveniles prefer to work in the barber shop. It is the social center of the jail where information and talk is freely exchanged. The juveniles get to cut each other’s hair using barbershop implements.
All youth committed to Ohio’s juvenile system will eventually return to their communities. In 2005, nearly 2,000 youth were released onto parole. Unfortunately, statistics predict that within 1 year, 30% of those youth released will come back to DYS or be committed to the adult correctional system. After three years, the number jumps to 50%. 
In the Module Four discussion board discuss the following:

Are the juveniles in Marion being adequately prepared for life after detention?
What is wrong and how could it be improved?
What are we preparing them for? What are they in detention for and how can we help them overcome their problems?