this quote caught my eyes: ``In San Francisco, said Gascón, prosecutors moved away from incarcerating children for low-level offenses like truancy or petty thef

this quote caught my eyes: ``In San Francisco, said Gascón, prosecutors moved away from incarcerating children for low-level offenses like truancy or petty theft as research showed that even one stint in juvenile hall led to a higher likelihood of recidivism.`` This effect was known from the beginning of the traditional prison system. Here is the quote from "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault: ``. And, just as the project of a corrective technique accompanied the principle of punitive detention, the critique of the prison and its methods appeared very early on, in those same years 1820-45; indeed, it was embodied in a number of formulation which - figures apart - are today repeated almost unchanged: ... - Detention causes recidivism; those leaving prison have more chance than before of going back to itl convicts are, in a very high proportion, former inmates 38 per cent of those who left the maisons centrales were convicted again and 33 per cent of those sent to con-vict-ships (a figure given by G. de Rochefoucauld during the debate on the reform of the penal code, 2 December 1831 Archives parle-mentaires, LXXII, 209-10); between 1828 and 1834, out of almost 30,000 convicted of crime, about 7,400 were recidivists (that is,1 out of 4.7 of those convicted); out of over 200,000 correctionels, or petty offenders, almost 35,000 were also recidivists (1 out of 6);in all, one recidivist out of 5.8 of those convicted (Ducpdtiaux, 1837,276ff);in 1831, out of 2,174 of those condemned for recidivism, 350 had been in convict-ships, 1,682 in maisons cenffales, 142 in four maisons de correction that followed the same regime as the centrales (Ducp6tiaux, 1837, 276ff). And the diagnosis became even more severe during the July monarchy: in 1835, out of 7,223 convicted criminals, 1,486 were recidivists; in 1839, 1749 out of 7,858 '' Keep in mind, "Discipline and Punish" was published in 1975 which is whooping 44 years ago. P.S sorry for typos, scanned version of the book is not very good quality