How Bad Were These 100,000 Kids That Courts Had Them Sent To Adult Prisons?

[eridani]

http://www.upworthy.com/how-bad-were-these-100000-kids-that-courts-had-them-sent-to-adult-prisons-the-reason-disgusts-me?c=upw1

The Reason Disgusts Me.Am I crazy in thinking this is so obviously wrong? I really struggle to think how a person at any stage of this process is OK with sending a child to prison with adults.

[kcr]

1. It is a barbaric practice

It satisfies vengeance, not justice. It is shameful result of political exploitation.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. This has been an ongoing problem for years...

a sorry mix of law and order attitudes, prosecutors looking for easy wins, declining youth budgets, for-profit jails, poor schools, and too many other things to list has made the "bad seed" kid too normal instead of as rare as it really is.

As a society, we often tend to jail our problems instead of solving them, and this is one result.

[druidity33]

3. this is a good example of "reporting"...

you know, that thing called Journalism. As opposed to what we get in US media. Anyone ever hear of this Truthloader website the report came from? I actually thought the reporter smiled too much, and was obviously reading a prompter... not quite a pro, but the content was engaging. I hope this brings enough light to the issue to affect change.

K&R

[RandoLoodie]

4. charter school to prison pipeline

charter school to military pipeline.

the establishment wants young people to be obedient employees, subjugated convicts, or cannon fodder in global oil wars.