n were to be adopted, the adult crime rate would eventually drop to an all time low for America. It would drop because the kids who go through the juvenile system will be learning how to be law abiding productive citizens instead of criminally educated people like those sent to adult prisons.Sending children who commit nonviolent acts of crime to adult prison is wrong and destroys their future. Some may believe that these kids are getting what they deserve because they may have also destroyed someone else’s future. The point that this paper is trying to express is to not send kids who commit nonviolent crimes to prisons. However, children who murder or cause physical harm to other human beings should be dealt with in an entirely different system other than the juvenile justice system. Hopefully this paper has convinced people that locking kids up with criminal masterminds in adult prison ruins their chances of ever leading a crime free life. The evils of the prison system on children can be summed up like this, “Today most of the guy’s I hung out with are now serving long prison terms. Those who get out mostly go right back in less than a year. Inside, they learn more about crime and make new connectionss” (Gaither 22). Marr 9Work’s CitedAmerican Civil Liberties Union. “Defusing The Myth: Prosecuting Children as Adults Doesn’t Work to Decrease Juvenile Crime.” www.aclu.org/congress/kids.htmlHedges, Micael. “Trying Juveniles as Adults Doesn’t Deter and May be racist.” Pg.2-3 Corpus Christi Caller Times September 28, 1999.Justice Policy Institute. “Congress Juvenile Crime Bill would have Robbed Them of Their Second Chances.” http://www.cjcj.org/jpi/conferee.html.Lemmon, David. “Juvenile Crime Control Act Will Set Stiffer Penalties for Juvenile Crime.” www.house.gov/tauscher/5-8-97.htm.Orlando, Frank. “The Florida Experiment...
