I can understand where everyone is coming from by saying that the child should be tried as an adult. But what some people don't realize is that prison makes a person worse off than he/she ever was. I knew of a person, something like a friend of an associate, who went to prison for about 3 years. When he got out, he was totally unlike the person he was when he went in. Now, from what I have heard since I have moved away, is that he is now serving a life sentence for being a habitual offender. I have always thought that prison was punishment but also rehabilitation. Why is it now like that? Why have some people become so 'institutalized'? Sorry to digress off the current thread, but my mind wonders about these types of things...
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