Youth crime ... adult time: as more states make it easier to lock up teenagers in adult prisons, what's become of juvenile justice?
New York Times Upfront › Vol. 134 Nbr. 8, January 2002
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National - Most states pemit the prosecution of juveniles as adults
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Youth crime ... adult time: as more states make it easier to lock up teenagers in adult prisons, what's become of juvenile justice?
SHAUN MILLER WAS 15 WHEN HE made the biggest mistake of his life. On an October night in 1998, he and three other teens robbed a convenience store in a small desert town in Nevada. The oldest member of the group, who was 19, planned the crime and held a gun to the cashier's head. Shaun, who was unarmed, took $726 from the cash register. The incident was caught on videotape, and Shaun's life changed forever.
Nevada, like most other states, joined a movement in the 1990s to crack down on juvenile crime, making it...See the full content of this document
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