My brother in law spent his career working in the Chicago juvenile justice system, mostly with violent offenders. He would respectfully disagree with you. He said that while he was there they were mostly gang members and by the time they were teenagers they were already lost. He didn’t believe in rehabilitation and when he retired he preferred to stay away from other people as much as possible. He has no faith in humanity, the result of spending most of his adult life dealing with the worst humanity has to offer.
I worked with criminally insane teens, gang kids and yes most are never rehab’ed. I could count on two hands in over a decade anyone who was rehab’ed. It’s way less now. They just shove them out, seal records and declare them healed to the programs don’t look like the utter fails they are.
Some teens though , the fringe kids caught up in it do get out before the serious trouble but I didn’t work with them. I worked with the fails, record was 29 failed placements at age 15....that patient did end up with a life.
I’d agree with your brother in law 99% of the time
Sad.
I have no idea when I became a misanthrope. I remember being told by the 4th grade teacher "You are a cynic." Parents divorce 3rd grade. My alcoholic abusive mother proudly declared (often) to people "I broke his spirit. It took me a while but I broke his spirit. I had to be sure I could control him and raise him without his father."
I really am trying to be a non-misanthrope. If my humor here is often bitter it's a way of coping.