itsjustmine

I work at a detention facility as well. After reading some of your answers, it seems that our respective facilities work differently. Our initial intakes usually come from the outside in violation of probation or serious offenses anywhere from aggrevated assaults to murder. We hold them until their "big" court as the juveniles like to call it. When we do the initial intake we do pat downs and then a strip search to make sure they do not carry anything with them into the facility (you'd be surprised what has gone in). Females do female intakes and males do males intakes. They have a intro to the rules and expectations. And they also take a physochological test to see if we need to take precautions on multiple levels (drug abuse, mental disorders, suicidal, etc). They do not have roommates. They have school Monday - Friday. Everyday they go to gym. Only one person showering at a time. We take precautions to the max when we can. We still have fights but they're rare, the juvenile mainly have verbal aggression towards each other. Sorry it's long