These days in the U.S.A., often children as young as 7 years old can be tried as adults and incarcerated in an adult prison. Even though these children are still not old enough to drink, vote or drive, they can still be tried and convicted as adults.
In the video, LaShon Beamon of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services says: “When you hold a youth accountable in the same manner and fashion in which you hold an adult, it's just not right and it's not fair.”A further interview is with Michael Kemp, who was jailed for the first time at 12-years-old. He was incarcerated in Oak Hill Juvenile Correctional Faciity outside Washington D.C.“Oak Hill it wasn't designed to rehabilitate you, it was designed for punishment. You know having barbed wires around the gate and it's just preparing you for more criminal-type lifestyle,” he says.... read full article.
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