What's really a bad idea, sending serious child offenders to adult court to do adult time. Doing that actually defeats the purpose of Juvenile Courts. The United States have done this bad idea for about two decades. But the state legislators are thinking of ways of reforming Maryland's juvenile justice system.
Source: http://www.gazette.net/stories/07272009/polinew173445_32533.shtml
Showing posts with label public safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public safety. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, January 28, 2008
Corrections?! Do Correctional Facilites Correct S***?!
The Baltimore Sun's coverage of the murder of correctional officer Jeffery A. Wroten while decent, does not cover a another perspective: Do correctional facilities do their job? There are three purposes of prisons: Keep them from society, restrict their freedom, and rehabilitation. But by how prisons are run since the Regan-era, they mostly do the first two right. If prisons were also for rehabilitation, why does this convict who was severing seven years for assault and armed robbery killed a correctional officer?
P.S. The title of this post is based on a lyric from 50 Cent's Bulletproof track called "Maybe We Crazy"
P.S. The title of this post is based on a lyric from 50 Cent's Bulletproof track called "Maybe We Crazy"
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