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If a person under the age of 19 commits a crime, he or she will receive a protective order according to the weight of the crime at trial.

Disposition No. 1, Disposition No. 2 In this way, they are all divided into ten stages.

It can be broadly divided into the case of entering a facility such as a juvenile detention center and receiving an order for probation or service from society.

The crime is not heavy enough to go to a juvenile detention center, but in the case of children who do not have guardians to look after them, we want to help them settle down in society by entrusting them to a private institution.

The purpose is good, but the problem is that there are not enough facilities to receive children.



First of all, this is reporter Park Chan-geun.



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Teenagers with pruning shears are engaged in a gardening class.



[(Even if you cut it squarely like a box, it retains its shape well.) Oh, I know what it is.]



In another classroom, science class is in full swing, and some students show off their piano skills.



It looks like any other boarding school, but this is a space where teenagers who have been entrusted with the 6th disposition in the juvenile trial, that is, consignment from a private facility, live for up to one year.



As the goal is to return to society through education, we are operating programs such as GED classes, forest planting for emotional stability, and piano lessons.



[Park Jae-sook / Lazarus Youth House Director: It’s been about a year since I left, and it’s Teacher’s Day in May, so I buy snacks, and the children also come and visit, and it’s amazing to see things like this.]



Many judges would like to send their children to these well-programmed facilities, if it's not a big deal, but not everyone who judges wants to go.



This is because the facilities are insufficient.



[Park Jae-sook / Lazarus Youth House Director: You have to see that almost 40 people are always full.

The saying that the garden is always full is that there are a lot of children who need to be sent to a place like this...

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There are only 13 facilities nationwide.



The capacity is only 582 people.



There are none in Chungnam, Gyeongnam, and Jeollanam-do.



Considering that the number of disposals of No. 6 in 2020 was 1,614, there is a significant lack of capacity.



[Bin Tae-wook / Judge of the Juvenile Department of the Cheongju District Court: There are often no seats in well-equipped juvenile protection facilities.

They are often outsourced to other facilities.

I wish there were more juvenile shelters with well-equipped programs...

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Although the government plans to reduce the age of juveniles by law, the existing juvenile department protection measures are planned in parallel.



(Video coverage: Kang Dong-cheol·Kim Se-kyung, Video editing: Lee Seung-hee, CG: Jo Su-in)



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