A father in Laredo is upset that his kids are not being reformed like he believes they should at the Webb County Youth Village. He claims his kids are not being detained for nearly as much time as they are sentenced for. Our Ryan Bailey spoke to him about his problem and joins us with more.

The Webb County Youth Village is set up to hold and hopefully reform troubled teens, but because of numerous issues he says they aren't doing the job of rehabbing our youth.

"They tell me they don't have room for them so they send them out again on the streets. What do they do? They come back to the streets and start on drugs."

Jose Santana says he has two kids that are caught up in drugs and every time they are sent to the County's Youth Village they are sent home early. His son was supposed to serve 10 days, but only did three. According to Webb County Commissioner Jaime Canales this happens often.

"Most kids get released within three days. Usually more severe cases go ahead and serve out the 10 days."

Santana says it's gotten so bad the police rarely respond to their calls anymore.

"When we call P.D. with a problem, they don't want to even take them because they say it's too far away and by the time they finish the paperwork they are calling the parents to come and pick them up and take them home."

He says he has tried to control them at home, but so far nothing has worked. Santana adds these days parents don't have the ability to discipline kids like they have in the past.

"Here in Laredo a lot of people are scared to hit their kids. Not hit but spank or discipline for a problem because they're afraid of the C.P.S. coming towards them and trying to put them in jail."

Canales is happy with the job the Youth Village has done, and believes the solution isn't detention but finding ways to get through to these troubled kids.

"To me the solution is finding the right programs to rehabilitate them to make sure these students do not fall back into the same type of problems they've been in in the past."

"Nowadays these kids don't respect us. They don't even respect the police. They don't even respect the judges."

One of the ideas Santana gave is to institute a boot camp within the youth village's programs. Canales says Commissioners are not responsible for instituting program changes, but they are always open to ideas that will improve the behavior of local at risk teens.