Juvenile means a child or any person below the age of majority. In most of the countries the age of puberty/ majority/ maturity is 18 years.Juvenile prison is a kind of Jail/ Prison for children. In most of the countries we have separate law for trying child offenders those can not be put with hardcore criminals or offender or under trial prison because of safety reasons.In Juvenile Prison the criminals, offenders or under trial prisoners below the age of legal majority/ maturity are kept in legal surveillances and restrictions in accordance with the Juvenile Court's directions.Its is a jail for Teenagers. It's a prison that is not all grown up yet.
you can be from the age 10-17, after that you can be shipped to a adult prison.
A juvenile detention facility is where individuals sentenced to a jail or prison term in Juvenile court are placed until their sentence term is up or they reach a certain age (typically around 18 or 21) and must be transferred to an adult detention facility to finish the remainder of their sentence term.
No state has ever allowed juvenile death penalties. However, someone tried as an adult, regardless of age, can be sentenced to death.
According to a class I've taken it depends on the case and age of the "Juvenile" but more than likely the juvenile would be held until the age of 18, unless he is tried as an adult...an adult is looking at 1-15 years
A juvenile may serve the rest of a sentence during a detention. This is done to ensure that a minor is not at risk in an actual prison until the legal age.
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A young offender is a person under the age of 21 but no younger than 15, they go to a young offenders institute because they're too young to go to prison.
For a girl the age has to be 18 or older. For a boy the age can be 17 or older.
Most prisioners die on death row, some from old age if they are sentenced to life in prison with out parole.
In the United Kingdom the minimum age that you can go to jail is 18 years of age. However, in the United States, it is age 13.
Juveniles are the young of an animal species. For example, a juvenile kangaroo is not fully grown or developed. In law, the term juvenile refers to a minor, a person who is under the age of 18.