Age 14 Too Young For Prison?

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

    BLAZER PROPHET Well-Known Member

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    http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/15/10670418-14-years-old-too-young-for-life-in-prison

    Evan Miller and Kuntrell Jackson are lifers, condemned at 14 to spend their lives in prison without the possibility of parole for their involvement in separate murders. Their backers say their sentences are cruel and unusual, leaving them without the second chance the young are so often given. They hope the U.S. Supreme Court agrees.

    I would agree that anyone under 18 should not go to a men's prison. However, I do think they should be incarcerated at a prison for minors until age 18 and then transferred to a men's prison to complete their sentence. Or, given their sentence, they should be in a protective area of a men's prison until age 18 before joining the general population and the joys of fap fap fap they will experience.
     
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    They are heinous murderers, and it's a shame taxpayers have to support them for life.

    No sympathy here for anyone but their victims.
     
  3. speeds

    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    14 is barely a teenager, let alone a man.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    The real question is, why aren't all the rest of the 14-year-olds in prison?

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    huevonkiller Change (Deftones)

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    Their crimes sound disgusting, so I don't feel sorry for them.

    When I was 14 I understood that extreme violence against others was wrong, it is common sense at least.
     

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