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MN: Pushing uphill to keep teens from landing in adult prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pushing uphill to keep teens from landing in adult prisons By GAIL ROSENBLUM, Star Tribune Last update: September 25, 2010 - 9:40 PM Minneapolis Star Tribune Jason Sole headed to Minneapolis' Seward neighborhood in January, hoping the horrific news he'd just heard was wrong. But three men had, in fact, been killed in a Somali convenience store, and one of them, customer Anwar Mohammed, was a man Sole knew well. "He was really, genuinely, a good guy," Sole said of Mohammed, 31, who worked as a parking lot attendant. As the story unfolded, Sole was in a tough position. The alleged shooter was Mahdi Ali, believed to have been born in a Kenyan refugee camp. Two weeks ago, a judge ruled that Ali was at least 16 when he allegedly pulled the trigger on all three men, a decision that means Ali can be tried as an adult...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).