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Justice: At Whose Expense? And how much youth lay uselessly buried behind these walls, what mighty powers were wasted here in vain? After all, one must tell the whole truth. These men were exceptional men. Perhaps they were the most gifted. Their mighty energies were vainly wasted abnormally, unjustly, hopelessly. And who was to blame, whose fault was it? That’s just it, who is to blame? The number of people under the age of 18 arrested daily in our country may astound some. In 1990, there were more than 1.7 million juveniles arrested, and since then the numbers have nearly doubled, even though the vast majority of these arrests have been for non-violent offenses, and four percent has been for non-criminal offenses, such as truancy, curfew violations or running away from home. Only about twelve percent of all juvenile offenses are crimes against another person. Although it is important to note that only about 52% of these arrests result in jail time, it is still a significant amount of juveniles behind bars. All together our prison population is at two million inmates. So what are our options then for these children? Every human being is different and therefore the way to deal with each person should vary. One opt