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Alert:
Congress
Considers
Jailing
Children
With
Adults
Background
on
Juvenile
Justice
Bill
Background
on
Juvenile
Justice
Bill
9/25/98
p A barbaric, extremist bill sponsored by Rep. Bill McCollum (R-FL), for which House leaders were not able to gain
support in the Senate, has been attached as an amendment to a highly popular bill funding programs for missing children. S. 2073 would require schools to expel students caught with
possession of small quantities of drugs, give prosecutors unreviewable power to try children as young as 14 as adults, whether or not violence was involved in the offense, would allow these children to be incarcerated with adult offenders, remove judicial discretion in sentencing, and
force states to focus on punitive approaches to juvenile crime instead of positive alternatives. Please call your two Senators at (202) 225-3121 and President Clinton at (202) 456-1111 -- or send faxes for free through the ACLU's web site at http://www.aclu.org/action/juvenile.html.
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Issue #60, 9/25/98
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