Juvenile Detention Facility

Implied sterile, punitive, institutional — a place of containment rather than rehabilitation in the ADA's framing.

Threat of punitive consequence motivating the request for mentorship intervention.

Represents the state's coercive power and the stakes of failing to provide social supports.

Locked, institutional, not easily reformed by political office without legal processes.

Implied as harsh, fluorescent, and punitive — a place of confinement and lost opportunities.

Threatened consequence — the negative option in the binary choice Charlie presents.

Symbolizes the pipeline from youthful misbehavior to institutionalization when community support fails.

Restricted, state-run; not a place where freedom is voluntary.

Imagined as stark, punitive, and dehumanizing; functions as a threat rather than a lived space in the scene.

Negative consequence and narrative deterrent against further criminality.

Represents the cycle of incarceration and lost potential that mentorship is meant to prevent.

Restricted and controlled (implied), accessible only through legal processes.