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CT: Raise the Age supporters cheer Democrats' alternative budget

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Raise the Age supporters cheer Democrats' alternative budget Hour Staff Writer Supporters of the Raise the Age campaign and other youth-focused legislation announced their support of the Democrats alternative proposed budget Monday, saying it preserves Connecticut's "commitments to children and families while being fiscally responsible." The "Raise the Age" legislation, signed into law in 2007 by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, changes the default mechanism in Connecticut that automatically sends youthful offenders to adult court at the age of 16 and, instead, allow 16- and 17-year-olds to go through the juvenile court system. Earlier this year as part of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's response to the budget crisis the governor said the state would delay the implementation of Raise the Age to 2012 -- the original implementation was supposed to be 2010...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).