How does this text make you think about justice in the world?
This article is about teen offenders being tried as adults. One teenager, 17, took his own life because he was tried as an adult in a drunken manslaughter. This helped the juvenile justice experts in their decision to help these unsuspecting teens. States all over the country are not taking such drastic measures and are ensuring that teenage offenders do not get sentences like adults. This makes me think that justice is not always fair and can be unreasonable.
Juvenile justice experts say, according to the article, that teenagers' minds are not fully developed. So even if they commit a crime when they are a teen, it doesn't mean they will become a criminal when they become an adult. So it's not fair that they are locked up with murderers and cold criminals. This information stopped the government from sentencing teens to adult sentences to scare them off the streets. This happened 20 years ago, since then people are trying to keep juvenile offenders in the juvenile system.
But some people don't agree with all these ways to keep teens out of prison. Some people think that its not fair to the victims of these crimes to let their killer or offender off so easily. People are worried that teenage offenders will start getting off to easy and keep doing crime.
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