juvenile detention homes

John "Smoke" Conlan uses his supernatural ability to travel outside the walls of a juvenile detention center to try to clear his name and help his fellow inmates find redemption.

After breaking out of juvenile detention, fourteen-year-old Digger stops his trek across Maryland at a campground where he recovers from injuries, cares for little Luke, works with smart and pretty Nora, and begins to understand how his behavior and choices shape his life.

Sentenced to three years in a juvenile correctional facility, Angela wants nothing more than to keep her nose clean so she can be approved for parole in three months. But when she's forced to act as a bodyguard for the new girl, a ten-year-old who seems to start fires with her mind, Angela finds herself in a situation that could threaten more than just her parole.

"A handless teen escapes from a cult, only to find herself in juvenile detention and suspected of knowing who murdered her cult leader"--.

"A teenaged guitarist in a rock band deals with loss and anger as he relates the events that landed him in a juvenile detention center"--Provided by publisher.

Bowser, a self-described victim of circumstance, relates his experiences as an inmate in a Virginia juvenile detention center, including his unlikely friendship with Nose, an African-American boy with a story to tell.

Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story.

The author describes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, torture, and commercial exploitation of children and youths ages five to sixteen--including not only young people who have committed crimes but runaways and children with mental disabilities--in correctional facilities he visited in thirty states between 1972 and 1975.

While serving a six-month sentence at a juvenile detention center, thirteen-year-old Sura struggles to survive the experience with his spirit intact.

Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.