The national children's law and the related rules of each State require institutions for juvenile delinquents to provide care, protection, welfare, education, vocational training, and rehabilitation services. However, the correctional institutions generally do not achieve these goals. Their problems result from the family backgrounds of most inmates, the routinized and authoritarian administration of correctional institutions, the lack of proper intake facilities, and the lack of proper diagnostic and treatment planning. Other problems are the inadequacy of services, the excessive emphasis on custody, the lack of supervision and coordination, the lack of aftercare, and personnel problems. Apathy of both staff and State government toward rehabilitation and juvenile corrections and the lack of community-based programs are further sources of the widening gap between modern correctional philosophy and its implementation.