I consider it ONE of the appropriate places to punish people. Apparently, you think no one should ever go to juvie, because something bad might happen to them there.
Fair enough, so just come out and say it: no minors should ever be confined by the State.
I was no angel growing up, and I never got anywhere near juvie.
But I never committed wierd assaults on other people's toddler children, either.
It’s not that I don’t believe juvenile delinquents should go to jail. It depends on the severity of the crime.
Forced haircut, no.
Murder, yes.
An appropriate punishment would have been to have her either pay whatever a haircut might have cost at a beauty salon or the equivalent in community service.
Jail is supposed to be a place you send people when there crime allows for no hope for atonement and reconciliation, not the hammer to every nail.