Prosecuting Juveniles In Adult Court Summary

What would a parent do if their child became an adult in seconds? Once a parent has to answer that question, they are never the same. When a juvenile is put into the adult system, that is the question the parents ask themselves. No parent wants to lose their child before their child loses them and that is how they feel when their child is sentenced to adult court. The sentencing of juveniles in adult court is unjust because children are different than adults, they are influenced easily, and prison is not a place for kids. In their paper,Prosecuting Juveniles in Adult Court, Malcolm C. Young and Jenni Gainsborough say that children put in prison are less likely to make it out of prison by the time they are suppose to be released. The two show that children put in prison are, “7.7 times more likely to commit suicide, 5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted, twice as likely to be beaten by staff, 50% more likely to be attacked with a weapon” (6). This means that some parents may
In the article she says that, “Juveniles who go through the adult courts are 34 percent more likely to be arrested again than those kept on juvenile tracks”. This means that children placed in prison are more likely to become repeat offenders, than someone who is kept in the juvenile system. The paper also talks about how kids brains are not fully developed, so they do not think about the consequences. Finally,this explains why teenagers are more reckless and don't think about what will happens in the future. In his story, under the alias, Jason Elliot tells about life as a child in prison and the struggle of being one of the youngest people in prison. In his story Jason says that “He was forced to participate in a ‘square dance,’ a fight between juvenile inmates organized by prison guards”. At one point