Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter looks at Challenge Incarceration Program, a Minnesota juvenile boot camp in Willow River. Supporters say strict discipline and hard work will knock some sense into criminals. But research seems to indicate that boot camps don’t work, don’t save money, and they don’t rehabilitate criminals.
Around the country, more and more states are building boot camps; in just over a decade, nearly every state has opened a camp for adults. Now, many states are opening camps for juveniles.