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Children Should Be Allowed In Prison
A 12 year old brother and 13 year old sister have been sent prison for 1st degree murder. Curtis and Catherine Jones murdered their fathers girlfriend and have been sentenced to 18 years. The reason behind the killing was about a relative abusing the two children and once Curtis and Catherine asked for help from their father and his girlfriend, they ignored and did not do anything about it. So the kids plotted a plan to kill the girlfriend. Today, children are receiving much harsher punishments than they should be. This is a major problem because once they are sent to prison they become victimized, are mentally unfit, and shouldn't live in that poor of environment.

Children who are placed in adult prisons and jails are more likely to become
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A child is going to act like a child. They are immature and irresponsible, but when this comes to the point where they are being sentenced to life and placed in adult prisons, that is a punishment so horrific for even any crime. Juveniles who are placed in prison have no hope of having a normal life when they finish their sentence. Most would even be lucky to make it out alive. Even some of them will make their best efforts to protect themselves from the other inmates. Only because, “The fear of being victimized or assaulted produces a need for security, which leads many young prisoners to rely on gangs and weapons for survival. Young prisoners overwhelmed by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness cannot focus on changing their thinking and behavior, because they are focused on how to survive” (Prison is too violent for young offenders 2012). Placing the child in survival mode is not going to improve the behavior or the environment. As more children enter these prisons, older inmates tell them that what they are doing is right and that they must have done a good job. A juvenile shouldn't be around other people that will put more violent thoughts into their mind and make them want to commit another crime once they finish up their sentence. So all the court systems are really doing is adding more violent behavior to the

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