Louisiana legislature advances constitutional amendment allowing more juveniles to be tried as adults
Louisiana legislature advances constitutional amendment allowing more juveniles to be tried as adults
Louisiana's Republican-controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower law-makers to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tr...
Louisiana’s Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tried as adults.
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Why is this any kind of priority? What heinous crimes are kids committing that they then get to abuse their legal status as minors? In what numbers???
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More people for the prisons. More money for prison owners
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This is kind of a shit article. It doesn't even mention what kind of crimes would be included. Unless it's all felonies, I guess.
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<...> would grant legislators the authority, with a two-thirds vote, to determine which juvenile crimes can be transferred to adult courts.
Amendment itself wouldn't apply to any crime/law, it just gives the authority to legislators to decide on per crime/law basis which they can't do now because of constitution.
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