Opinion: Young Offenders are Different
Aug 27, 2010, Dana Kaplan, The News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana)
Currently in Louisiana there are 897 individuals behind bars for crimes committed as juveniles. Of these 897, almost half, 394, were prosecuted as adults, bypassing the juvenile justice system created especially for their needs and their rehabilitation, and despite the fact that research demonstrates children transferred to adult prison are more likely to be subjected to brutality and abuse while incarcerated.
Members of the Louisiana Sentencing Commission convene this week for their quarterly…
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