Stories Related to The Steep Costs Of Keeping Juveniles In Adult Prisons

Jessica Lahey, The Atlantic: Education
Fri, 01/08/2016 - 10:48am

The Steep Costs of Keeping Juveniles in Adult Prisons

Joshua Lott / Reuters On December 14, 2015, Philip Chism, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was convicted of raping and murdering his high-school math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. Chism, now 16, was 14 when he committed the crime, but was tried as an adult due to a Massachusetts state law requiring juveniles 14 and older accused of murder to be tried as adults.

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