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| Illuminate and educate |
| By Ann Coppola, News Reporter |
| Published: 03/05/2007 |
MTV may be known for music videos and shows about glamorous teenage lifestyles, but with its new show Juvies the network is offering an unprecedented look into what happens to teens when they break the law.Juvies is the first television series ever produced inside a juvenile prison. The documentary, filmed at Lake County Juvenile Justice Complex in Crown Point, Indiana, follows several teenagers from their days in the detention center to their court hearings. Executive producer and show creator Karen Grau, who is the parent of a teenager herself, says Juvies was partly inspired by a common teenage misconception surrounding juvenile detention centers. “I will hear teens say, So and so got in a fight and has to go to juvie,' and I'll ask, What do you think that means?' They'll say, Oh they had to go to a detention center and their parents had to pick them up,' when in fact that couldn't be farther from the truth,” Grau explains. Educating teenagers about what “juvie” means is a difficult task, due to the strict laws that protect the juvenile justice system from the public eye. “Unfortunately it's hard to educate the public when it's a closed system. You can't help a system that isn't allowed to be seen,” Grau adds. That all changed in 1998, when Grau petitioned the Indiana Supreme Court for a bill on positioning cameras inside juvenile courtrooms. Since then she has shot numerous documentaries on child welfare cases, including MSNBC's Kids in Crisis and Dateline/NBC's For Their Own Good. For Juvies, Grau had to once again work with the Supreme Court justices in order to gain the unprecedented access for the show. “It's very remote that you will ever get this access,” Grau says. “I wrote a very lengthy letter explaining how I wanted to do the project and why I wanted to do it. The five justices of the Supreme Court granted the access. It entailed many meetings and conversations about what canons in the law would be waived. It was so extraordinary that we were able to get a waiver on a canon of state law.” Once Grau had the go-ahead from the Supreme Court, she began filming in January 2006 and ultimately shot around 1,700 tapes. “Basically, the way Juvies worked is I was on location at the Lake County Juvenile Detention Center when calls would be coming in from various police departments. I would find out who the child was, I would call the parents, who already knew their child had been arrested, tell them who I was, tell them about the project, and if the parents agreed and the child agreed, we would begin filming. We filmed the entire time they were in detention and the court hearings and follow up,” says Grau. The footage from inside the detention center reveals everything from each teenager's intake process, to time spent in the cafeteria and on the grounds, to visitations with parents, to lights-out. In one episode, viewers get a glimpse of the pages and pages of rules posted on a facility wall. As 14-year-old Rashad, arrested for battery, remarks in the third episode, “You sleep when they say sleep, you gotta wake up too early, and you can't play video games or anything like that.” But Juvies does not just focus on the teens, it also features the intake officers, detention officers and detention supervisor, and illuminates the responsibilities and challenges they face every day. The former Indiana Department of Corrections employee hopes Juvies will bring a new appreciation to the corrections profession. “I have formed a good relationship with all the correctional staff I've worked with over the years and I hope more than anything that it's a job that will be appreciated. It's not an easy job,” says Grau. In addition to chronicling the day to day activity of the detention center, Juvies brings the cameras into the courtroom of Senior Judge Mary Beth Bonaventura at the Lake County Superior Court Juvenile Division for the teens' hearings. Bonaventura, who was appointed a senior judge in 1993, says watching Juvies has taught her things about the juvenile justice system even she didn't know. “I guess I was surprised after doing this for 25 years to actually see on air everything that goes into it from the time the kids go into detention for the intake interview when they're handcuffed to the desk I didn't know about any of that. Watching the show has been very enlightening and informative. It's made me do my job a little bit differently.” On Juvies, the moments in the courtroom are tense and emotional. Bonaventura ultimately decides whether the teens will stay in detention or be released into the custody of their parents or guardian, a decision which she says is the most difficult part of her job. “Making the decision about who should go home and who should stay detained is difficult because you want to do the right thing. You don't want to damage lives by putting back on the street a kid who will continue using drugs or engage in illegal behavior, and you don't want to keep a kid detained who should be back in school.” Bonaventura discusses her rulings from the show and the reasons behind her decisions in a weekly podcast at www.juvies.mtv.com Juvies premiered February 1 and will run for eight episodes, airing every Thursday night at 10 p.m. EST on MTV. So far, the positive feedback on the show has been overwhelming. “The ratings have been phenomenal,” says Grau. “We've been very happy with that and we've gotten a lot of positive response from around the country.” Even more rewarding are the responses she's receiving from non-critics. “We're getting positive reviews from people such as folks at Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges,” she says. “I just got an e-mail from a teacher at Arthur Ashe Junior Elementary in West Virginia who was just applauding and saying this should be shown in every elementary and middle school across the country because kids don't realize the consequences of their actions.” Getting kids to realize the consequences of their actions is the ultimate goal for Grau and Judge Bonaventura. “I hope they see what the consequences of a simple decision, such as, Should I get in this car with this person I maybe know?' could be,” says Bonaventura. “The ultimate goal is for teenagers to understand exactly what being in juvie entails,” Grau says. “Our goal is always, and I promised this to the Supreme Court, to illuminate and educate.” She adds, “I never will be able to calculate this, but I would love to know how many kids in the past couple of weeks have said, Hmm, should I go to this party or not.' I'd like to think at some point the show will make somebody stop and think.” Given Juvies' ability to show that the reality kids in detention centers face is much more than just waiting for their parents, Grau can be sure it already has. Related Resources: More about the MTV show Juvies The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges About Prevent Child Abuse America |
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