Juveniles Should Be Punished As Adults

Does Juveniles should be punished as an adult if they have commit a crime? Every year in the United states, an estimated 250,000 children under the age of 18 are tried, sentenced or imprisoned as adults. And of these , around 100,000 actually end up in adult jails and prisons , with many spending time in solitary confinement. About 37% are Non-Hispanic Black males, 25% are Non-Hispanic White, 23% are Hispanic males, 7.9% are all females and 6% are other males. I disagree that juveniles should be sentence As an adult if they have commit a crime. First of all, Studies have been made that teens brains are not fully developed and may not be capable of knowing what is wrong or right. On the Article of “Startling Finds on teenage Brains” By Paul Thompson, remark that the biggest surprise in recent teen-brain research is the finding that a massive loss of brain tissue occurs in the teens years. That means that juveniles have not the same intellectual as an adult do. So why punished a kid that is not reasonable of their actions as the other hand an adult that is more rational of her or his actions
All humans make mistake in life, Some juveniles get punished and received full life sentences, That should never happen to a kid, They would never try to succeed in life because they may say “why studying or learn something if I would be in jail all my life.” If a kid in jail is sentence for 60 years and try to rehabilitate by going to counseling, they should low their sentence because it show that the young boy is trying to become someone in life. For example, the story of Greg Ousley a 15 year old kid that kill his parents and was sentence for 60 years in prison. But Greg try to recover and got a college