| Show T Blow to fie Youth Rehabilitation Announcement of impending closing of the training school for juveniles at the Tooele Ordnance depot is another blow at Utah's program for rehabilitating or disciplining wayward youths The Tooele school had esta established a pretty good record during the period of its operation for transi transitional onal training for certain class classes of delinquent youths Some of them were inmates of the Ogden industrial school who had bad given evidence of capacity for capacity for rehabilitation and who were about ready for release release release re re- re- re lease from the institution At Tooele they were given a transitional transitional transitional transi transi- period of adjustment with opportunities to work and earn money It made it easier for them when they were finally released to to settle down and make something of themselves Others at the Tooele plant were youths whose troubles were largely the result of bad home and family situations They needed to be taken out of their environments and given a chance to develop normally They were a little old for the usual foster home type of care i in 1 such cases and furthermore it is difficult to find good foster homes for them Closing of the Tooele training school will mean that some youths who are good rehabilitation prospects will have to be kept at the industrial school l where they will be subjected to the bad influences of recalcitrant youths Others will have to stay atay in bad home environments The rehabilitation program for wa wayward Ward youths will undoubtedly suffer as a result It is pretty obvious that there is something wrong with our Utah system for dealing with delinquent juveniles The record of persistent escapes from the Ogden institution and the generally generally generally gen gen- inadequate program and facilities there for handling these youngsters proves the basic weakness The Tooele school was wa wasa a step in the right direction It is unfortunate that it has to be abandoned after such a a. promising start |
