Mario, Sent back to the minors

Mario violated probation. He was not following the rules of the rehabilitation center and was sent back to juvenile center. What he was sent back for could be considered unfair. All we take from it is that he was doing better. Mario is working on his tolerance. He is working on his social skills and it is odd how we as a society move the mark and actually add obstacles for youth like Mario.
Mario has been incarcerated for the majority of his adolescent life. So everything he has learned has either been from his home environment or jail. The system does their best to teach him to interact better, but they never put him in an environment where he can successfully practice his techniques. I relate it to fielding grounders. I always thought that if I could field all the ground balls on a rocky field that when I got to the nice fields it would be cake. No, it wasn't cake. It was safer, but it was just as difficult and more was at stake. It is frustrating to see him make small, but monumental, accomplishments and then watch those around him measure him to a standard so much higher than what he is realistically capable of. He trust no one.
The system wants him to follow rules that he has he is not geared to follow. The system is teaching him to punish, and yet when he punishes its wrong. Of course, his ideas of the rules are far different from the system's idea of rules. Nevertheless, he is still working out of their constructs. Somewhere along the path of history, it became fully acceptable to value punishment as a way to discipline. As I see it, discipline comes from a community who teaches by example, establishing a tradition that incorporates its values. These juvenile offenders are being taught one thing....to PUNISH!