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CT: New Haven Independent Teen Prisoner?s Mom: Raise The Age

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Haven Independent Teen Prisoner?s Mom: Raise The Age by Melinda Tuhus | March 5, 2009 2:17 PM HARTFORD ? ?I don?t understand why they have this idea that sending kids to jail is gonna help them,? cried Katherine Gonzalez (pictured), the mother of a 15-year-old boy who sits in prison alongside adult offenders. ?No, it?s not gonna help them.? Gonzalez, of New Haven, spoke tearfully at a press conference at the Legislative Office Building, organized by the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance to press the state legislature to stick to its original implementation date of January 1, 2010 for raising the age from 16 to 18 at which individuals are treated as adults in the criminal justice system. Gov. M. Jodi Rell has called for postponing the date by two years as a cost-saving measure to help deal with the state?s budget deficit...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).