Comments on: Sad statistic http://toni.org/2007/04/24/sad-statistic/ A Swiss guy in San Francisco Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:45:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matt http://toni.org/2007/04/24/sad-statistic/#comment-9739 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:18:10 +0000 http://toni.schneidersf.com/2007/04/24/sad-statistic/#comment-9739 Which part of that is sad, the fact that there’s so many children committing crimes or the severity of the punishment?

]]> By: Toni http://toni.org/2007/04/24/sad-statistic/#comment-9756 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:09:19 +0000 http://toni.schneidersf.com/2007/04/24/sad-statistic/#comment-9756 Primarily the severity of the punishment. In the rush of politicians to be tough on crime, the US is putting more and more children behind adult prison bars. In some states kids as young as 10 years old are tried as adults and receive adult prison sentences despite the fact that in other civil matters they are treated differently according to their maturity level (they can’t marry, vote, sign contracts, buy cigarettes, etc, but when it comes to committing a crime they are supposedly displaying adult judgment).

True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall is an incredible book about the topic.

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