defiant teen behavior mixed with stress at home. often older kids are caught in a difficult role of assuming the adult responsibilities of a single or absent parent. for ayryana, who regularly cares for her brothers while her mom works swing shifts at a local factory, being away from home makes an already tough situation worse. i can t take it in here. three days being locked up, not doing anything. that s not good. after a while you start to get a little crazy. some seem to be so happy. it s like, how are you happy and you re in here? how do they do that? nationally nearly 30% of juvenile arrests involve females. sometimes the closed quarters and inherent anxiety of being locked up help create unexpected bonds. most of my friends are locked up right now, so there are a few girls that are good friends to me. like i can relate to them a lot.
no, i wasn t. how was it you became arrested then? i don t know. i have no further questions, judge. all right. thank you. you may have a seat back there. the purpose to have day s hearing is to determine what should happen to arianna. do you have an opinion as to what the court should do? i want my daughter home with me. how is she doing in school? she s doing real good this year. i took her to a different school. i didn t want her with the same people. do you believe the environment at her former school was part of the reason why she was having her anger problems? yes. so you recognize the problem and did something about it? yes. okay. are you able to provide supervision over her? yes. when do you work? i work swing shifts, rotating backwards. and explain that in a little more detail. i finish midnight and i start afternoons wednesday. with such an irregular work schedule, it falls on arianna to
was having her anger problems? yes. so you recognized the problem and did something about it? yes. are you able to provide supervision over her? yes. when do you work? i work swing shifts, rotating backwards. explain that in a little more detail. i finish midnights today and i start afternoons wednesday. with such an irregular work schedule, it falls on ayryana to take over the responsibilities at home and play mother to her two brothers. a source of much frustration for her and partially why ayryana finds herself here today. when i finish i may or may not have a day off. then i go to day turns and then back to midnights, rotating backwards. that s all that i have, judge. thank you, you may have a seat. to get a final perspective on the case, the judge calls on the probation department for their
before? did it work? for some of the kids locked up in lake county juvenile, the pressures are more than most teens can imagine. never has this been so painfully clear than when 16-year-old ayryana gets a visit from her mother. you can t go to girls school. because it s like you re the center of the household. you can t go to girls school. what is everybody going to do? going to girls school means going to juvenile prison. a frightening prospect on her own. but ayryana also has to face what her absence could mean to the welfare of her entire family. on top of that, i have to pay your fees while i m here tonight. that s $110 plus the money i lost saturday, which was overtime. because ayryana s mom works swing shifts at the local factory, it s up to ayryana to help raise her brothers and
falling asleep at their screens. in some cases, leaving pilots and their passengers to fend for themselves. can t seem to get ahold of the tower here. reporter: clearly, the system was fraught with fatigue. and now the first steps to try to fix it. we ve decided to implement immediately new rest times for the controllers. reporter: the new rules require at least nine hours between shifts, up from the current eight hours. controllers will not be allowed to trade shifts unless they still have that nine-hour break. managers will work later into the night and earlier in the morning to ensure extra coverage. will this work? this is very much a bits and pieces band-aid type of an approach. reporter: he is a fatigue expert, who says what s needed are schedules that allow controllers enough time to commute, eat, and sleep. controllers, for example, have been allowed to work two swing shifts, take an eight-hour break, work two day shifts, another eight-hour break and then a midnight