Get-tough laws that have put more teenagers in adult prisons since the early '90s conflict with a wave of new research suggesting how children can be set straight and society protected at the same time.
Since 1992, every state but Nebraska has made it easier to try juveniles as adults, and most states have legalized harsher sentences. Many states limit judges' discretion, sending all teens who commit serious offenses to adult courts, or allowing prosecutors to opt for adult prosecution.
2007-09-30 07:37:25 · 12 answers · asked by KittyCatFishApe 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Please Explain
Why or why not
2007-09-30 07:42:00 · update #1
Some should never see the light of day again. Take the Jena 6. Those thugs should never breathe a gulp of free air again because they were well old enough to know what they were doing. It isn't like they were 8 years old or something.
2007-09-30 08:00:18 · answer #1 · answered by WEASEL LIBERALS 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think juveniles should be sent to adult prisons. There are prisons for juveniles but an adult prison would be too mature and disturbing for a juvenile, even though juvenile prisons can already be pretty bad. The need to exist both juvenile jails and prisons. It should stay how it is and have juveniles seperated from adults. I do believe in 'children' getting tried as adults for higher crimes. Such as the Jena 6. Alot of states do not even have a minimum age to get tried as an adult which IS a good idea. They say after about age 7 you can actually be arrested because at that age you defiently know right from wrong.
2007-09-30 07:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by RedWhite&Blue 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Anyone who thinks adult prison is the best for juveniles probably never saw the tv show "Brat Camp".
I loved this show because it took a bunch of arrogant, stridently defiant teens, kids who laughed about how they could get away with anything, and reduced them to tears in a matter of days. Kids who bragged about how tough they were sobbing like a five year old.
What this camp accomplishes is to deny these teens the luxury of their self delusions. In the wilderness, they can't pretend; either they can do something or they can't. They can't use swagger and bravado to mask their deficiencies. In school or at home, they can dupe people into thinking they are smarter or stronger than they really are. In Brat Camp, the truth is glaringly exposed.
In prison, all the tricks that allow people the luxury of not honestly confronting their problems is often magnified, not reduced. In prison, you do whatever you can to mask your weakness. But in Brat Camp, pretending you're tough doesn't work.
Brat Camp works because it's all geared towards redemption, not just punishment. It's the farthest thing from being soft on crime. Prison has parole, but it's not a great motivator for true personal change. Prisoners just get better at duping people that they have changed.
In Brat Camp, the kids realize that they have the key to leaving this place they despise so much. Almost all of them try to dupe the counselors, but the counselors are really savvy. They know exactly how to really gauge if the teens have learned their lesson or not.
I doubt many of these kids fall back into their old habits. In the tv season I watched, only one kid out of 15 reverted back to his old ways. Many of them were starkly improved.
2007-09-30 08:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
somebody below 18 convicted of extreme felonies as an person 'can' pass to an person reformatory to be housed 'yet' the U. S. spectacular courtroom has ruled that for all US states he must be saved break free person prisoners in a separate facility in that reformatory till he's eighteen. So, if convicted whether he is going to a juvenile facility or a reformatory he can't be placed 'in' with adults.
2016-10-20 09:28:04 · answer #4 · answered by borgmeyer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, children should not be sent to adult prisons, ESPECIALLY the Jena 6. Children being sent to adult prisons does not even make sense, if they are a child, why would you send them to an adult prison?
2007-09-30 08:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and the Jena 6 need to be there But the self proclaimed Revs. Al and Jesse only see hate crime as a one way street and that my friend is true racism
2007-09-30 07:46:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If the crime committed is heinous and/or felonious then a resounding yes is my answer!
2007-09-30 09:38:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When they commit adult crimes they should be incarcerated with adults!~!
2007-09-30 07:51:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the crime is bad enough.
2007-09-30 07:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i would say start the military draft and use that
2007-09-30 08:03:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋