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1Youth housed in adult
prison are 36 times more
likely to commit suicide than
those housed in juvenile
centers
Paraphrase: According to the Young Kids, Hard Time
film Young Kids, Hard
Time, kids under the age of
18 that are housed in adult
prisons were 36 times more
likely to commit suicide as
opposed to those who are
kept in juvenile centers.

2 Paraphrase: Children as Young Kids, Hard Time

young as seven years old
can be tried as an adult and
sent to an adult prison in 22
states.

3Young people and
biologically different from
adults. Brain imaging studies
reveal that the regions of the
adolescent brain responsible
for controlling thoughts,
actions and emotions are not
fully developed
According to recent brain Juveniles Dont Deserve Life
imaging studies, the regions Sentences (93).
of the adolescent brain
responsible for controlling
thoughts, actions and
emotions are not fully
developed.

4You want to throw the adult Democratic state Kids are Kids- Until They
book at kids?... Lower the representative Ron Wilson, Commit Crimes
voting age to 14 believes that the regulations
for juveniles are not
consistent. We dont let kids
vote, but we want to try them
in court as an adult.

5The nations juvenile arrest
rate for murder fell 68
percent from 1993 to 1999,
hitting its lowest level since
1966
Even though the rate of Kids are Kids- Until They
murder is decreasing, the Commit Crimes
media has created an image
where teenagers must be
feared.

6 Nationwide, 79 young Juveniles Dont Deserve Life

adolescents have been Sentences
sentenced to die in prison --
a sentence not imposed on
children anywhere else in the
world
7... the Supreme Court
recognized that even in the
most serious murder cases,
juvenile offenders cannot
with reliability be classified
among the worst offenders:
they are less mature, more
vulnerable to peer pressure,
cannot escape dangerous
situations, and their
characters are still in
development
8...when I was unable to
pick up, Greg shrugged off
the lost opportunity with
equanimity. No problem, he
would say the following week
I know youve got other
things going on
9 Greg began putting his
thoughts to paper. His first
effort, a 40-page handwritten
essay begun when he was
19, took him 15 months to
write and was titled, Why I
Killed My Parents
10There is no other
country in the world that
would treat a child as an
adult, said Robert
Schwartz, co-founder
and executive director of
the Juvenile Law Center
(JLC) in Philadelphia.
Social science has taught
us that kids who are this
young are not criminals
in the same way that
adults are.
11The U.S. remains one
of only two United
Nations member states
that have not ratified the
Convention on the Rights
of the Childwhich bans
life imprisonment for
Juveniles cannot be treated Juveniles Dont Deserve LIfe
in the same way as adults Sentences
because they are not mature
enough and cannot be held
accountable in the same way
as adults.
After being a very mentally Greg Ousley 103
disturbed teenager, Greg now
shows many signs of
maturity and patience. Time
in prison seems so to have
changed Greg into a different
person.
Greg shows a rare intuition Greg Ousley 103
to address his mistake and
reinvent himself as a person.
When a person shows
behavior like this for a long
period of time, he has
definitely changed.
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that the United States is /articles/2014/10/18/10-year-
taking the extreme position old-murder-defendant-
on juvenile justice because shows-failure-of-u-s-juvenile-
all other countries treat justice-system.html
juveniles in a different way
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choosing to have a juvenile /articles/2014/10/18/10-year-
justice system that aligns old-murder-defendant-
with a country that is way shows-failure-of-u-s-juvenile-
behind the US in terms of justice-system.html
development.
minors. The other is
Somalia.
12"The teenage brain is like a car The teenage population is http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRI
with a good accelerator but a not ready to make adult ME/02/10/pennsylvania.youn
weak brake," wrote Steinberg, decisions and therefore is g.murder.defendant/
who is considered among the
foremost experts in the field.
not ready to be charged as
"With powerful impulses under an adult.
poor control, the likely result is a
crash."