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发帖数: 61690 | 1 California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Sunday signed a series of bills aimed at
overhauling the state's juvenile justice system, reforms that advocates say
will further their efforts to rehabilitate minors who commit crimes early in
life.
Brown signed a bill that would end the practice of trying some 14- and 15-
year olds in adult court and he signed another measure to set the minimum
age for prosecutions at 12, except in the case of serious crimes.
A third bill would eliminate automatic penalties that add five years to the
sentences of some convicted criminals, handing discretion back to sentencing
judges.
“These are real game-changers in the juvenile justice and criminal justice
systems,” said Holly Mitchell, the chairwoman of California’s state Senate
Budget Committee and the prime author of the reform measures. “When you
know better, you do better, and research has shown over the last couple of
decades that our strategy of incarcerating younger and longer didn’t work.
All it did was throw children in jail settings with adults without
programming that was geared toward their developmental age.” |
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