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Washington Post Editorial "Va. legislators should embrace bills to protect juveniles in prison"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Editorial: Va. legislators should embrace bills to protect juveniles in prison Washington Post Friday, February 5, 2010 THERE IS NO safer political bet than supporting legislation to protect children from harm. That bet is tougher when the children in question are juvenile offenders, but it is no less worthy. Virginia lawmakers should muster the courage to endorse two bills that would enhance protections for juvenile offenders. Housing minors in adult prisons is a bad idea. It raises the risk of physical and sexual abuse of the younger inmates while denying them educational, vocational and psychological services available in juvenile-only programs. Senate Bill 259, sponsored by Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), requires that even underage offenders charged as adults must be detained in juvenile facilities; judges may order a transfer to an adult facility if they conclude that an offender poses a danger to other juveniles in detention...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 06, 2010 (boomark / email).