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| Group wants juveniles out of adult correctional facilities |
| By timesdaily.com- Mary Sell |
| Published: 01/27/2016 |
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MONTGOMERY — Officials with the Southern Poverty Law Center plan to ask Alabama lawmakers to make changes within the criminal justice system that would keep juveniles out of adult correctional facilities. Ebony Howard, an attorney for the SPLC, told the Prison Reform Task Force at the Statehouse on Tuesday that on average, 1,000 juveniles are tried as adults each year in Alabama. In some of those cases, they’ve been convicted of misdemeanors, she said. Most juvenile offenders serve three to five years. “Children need to be held accountable, but in a way that will allow them to re-enter society,” Howard said. State law allows for juveniles as young as 14 to be tried as adults. Howard said she knows of some as young as 15 currently serving. In 2013, the TimesDaily reported in the four-year period ending in 2012, 253 teenagers younger than 18 were in Alabama Department of Corrections’ facilities. Read More. |
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