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Originally posted by AGDee
I'm not opposed to the author's last coment though...
"What I will do is offer an alternative: Why not charge the 14-year-old as an adult and, if he's found guilty, let him remain in a juvenile facility until he's 18? Then he can be transferred to an adult facility to finish the balance of his sentence. If that sentence makes him eligible for parole in, say, 20 years, he could apply when he's about 34 years old, with the rest of his life ahead of him. "
I think that sending him to a juvenile facility until he's 18 and then EVALUATING whether he is ready to return to society or not, and sending him to an adult facility if it is deemed that he isn't ready would be the best option in a case like this.
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I can get behind this idea, although I would keep him in the juvenile facility until he's 21 if possible (as in many states). I suppose I should state that I don't think that most prisons actually
reform, and I'm not sure if a truly criminal mind
can be reformed.