Description of Experience Expectations Next week I will visit the Ottawa County Juvenile Detention Facility, a forty-bed correctional and rehabilitation center that houses both boys and girls ages eight to eighteen years old. I expect it to be very structured, with a very strict schedule and little privacy for the offenders. I think there will be guards, in uniform, but no guns, tasers or batons. When I arrive on the grounds of the detention complex, there will be a fence with barbed wire on top, and I will have to check in through a gate with a photo ID, and my bag will be searched, and it is expected that I go through a metal detector. I will then be escorted into a lobby, with plexiglass windows and large steel doors, and many, many cameras. From there I will meet Lily Marx, the superintendent of the facility, with whom I organized my tour, and a short interview. From there we will visit the detention center and see the cells and classrooms. Each cell will have two beds, a bathroom, a sink and perhaps a window. I also expect the prison to be very bare, with little to no decoration, gray walls with a pale blue floor, and harsh fluorescent lights that continuously shine and hum as you pass by. I expect it to be boring, dark and have a miserable cloud hanging over it. Description of Agency or Court On Monday, October 28, I had a 10:00am appointment with Lily Marx, the superintendent of the Ottawa County Juvenile Jail. The property is located off Fillmore Street near the intersection of 120th and Fillmore Streets in West Olive Michigan. The building also contains the Ottawa County Probate Court, training facilities, and the Ottawa County Jail. The facility is clearly marked,......middle of the card......adults, and should not be treated as them. The entire time I visited the facility, it was business as usual. I arrived there at 10:00 in the morning, right in the middle of the residents' school day. In Chapter 10 I read about how the new generation of correctional officers “must learn to identify and work proactively with the prison population, which has led to an increase in the duties of a correctional officer.” (Textbook Justice and Society page 365) This is exactly what I saw at the Ottawa County Juvenile Detention Centre, all areas of the staff were directly involved with the residents of the facility. As we learned from the study by William et al. (1999) on new generation prisons “we found that disciplinary problems and violence against officers and other prisoners were significantly reduced and staff reported greater control over prisoners”.