Juvenile Injustice: Throwing Away the Key
Posted on Mon Mar 29, 2004 at 09:58:33 AM EST
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently published a series of articles on punishing juvenile offenders as adults. They are included in Throwing Away the Key , which begins with a description of the transition from juvenile facility to adult prison and its devastating consequences for the juveniles.
Check out this graph, which shows that of the more than 600 juveniles sentenced as adults under Georgia's Senate Bill 440 since 1994, nearly 83 percent were black, according to state records.
Here's the story of one more juvenile offender the system failed at first, but thanks to a caring deputy district attorney, was allowed to withdraw his plea and be sentenced as a juvenile. He stayed in juvenile detention until age 21. He recently completed his GED, with honors.
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