America, the home of the incarcerated. If you come from a poor background and need help this is the future. Sad, I’m just sad.
Hundreds of foster kids in Oregon sent to former jails instead of families: report http://hill.cm/YnHq5RQ pic.twitter.com/2kA5IrHS4W
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Horrible, I use to represent children in the custody of the state, they are for the most part a victim of circumstances, parents on drugs, sexually abused, abandoned by parents, then once in the system they are penalized and victimized by the system, it’s a travesty! So sad!pic.twitter.com/J38Sxnd31f
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I’m curious, are these “former jails” privately owned and are they for profit? Who worked out this deal? Who lobbied for it?
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I'm a former foster kid & I'd rather be there than in some home where they got rushed through the system to foster for the $$. Placing these kids in homes where they are not wanted is worse & abuse is rampant. Unless you are a decent human ready to foster? False hope is worse.
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Please know, I know a highly competent Oregon psychologist who could not handle the violent kids placed in her foster care (or the unreimbursed damage expenses). On the flip side, I saw a LOT of mental illness in OR locked youth prisons. Resources are not in place for these kids
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It is sad but the state can’t force people to be foster parents and there isn’t enough support for more group homes. Oregon also removes kids from homes at high rates.
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Did you run out of photos? Not a juvi (detention center) jail in photo.
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Jails -- even if retrofitted to be less 'jail-like'-- are the exact opposite settings these children need to heal. Utterly inhumane and foolishly costly long-term. Do better Oregon.
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