At present, just about every state-run juvenile detention facility is horrendously overcrowded. Of course, such a center would end up being a perpetual hackers' summit, a place for all those young amateurs to graduate as seasoned pros after sentences spent exchanging their own special hacking techniques, analyzing and carefully scrutinizing where they tripped up and deliberating on how to avoid repeating their mistakes. A modest proposal Everyone knows there are country club federal penitentiaries, places with tennis courts, libraries and classes, where white-collar corporate miscreants wind up. Without spending a great deal more, the feds could set up a juvenile wing of the country club pens. Then it would be easy to set up a mentoring system.
Kids can learn a lot from adults.
There are great benefits for the adults as well. Often, the best they can do is read e-mail. In a sort of reverse apprenticeship, the kids could help the adults to develop their computer skills to more criminally advantageous levels. Some long-term partnerships might even develop. Get ready for smaller upgrades and software by subscription.