Issues on psychological problems facilitated by the harmful situation for optimal personal growth such as being imprisoned are critical and need investigation to know the correlation. This research aims to investigate how common mental health issues experienced by youths at Kutoarjo Juvenile Correctional Institution. The research participants included 69 youth as samples, ranging in age from 14 to 18 years old with an average age of 16.5. The DASS 42 (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale) was used to collect data. It is a self-report scale that was intended to measure depression, anxiety, and stress. Demographic data was also gathered as complementary. The results reveal that none of the participants have severe depression symptoms, 13.04 percent have mild depression symptoms, and 7.25 percent have moderate depression symptoms. Concerning anxiety, it is known that 10.15 percent of those surveyed had extremely serious anxiety and 7.25 percent had severe anxiety. Furthermore, 2.9% of the participants were stressed to a severe and extremely severe degree. There were no significant differences in depression, anxiety, or stress depending on the educational context. Moreover, there was no significant correlation between distance from house to penitentiary and problems of depression and stress; however, the distance has a significant correlation with anxiety, rho = .238, at Los .05.