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Can kids go to prison? A legal expert explains how young people can be tried and sentenced as adults
There’s a separate justice system for people under 18 because their brains are still developing. Treating them as adults can turn them into repeat offenders.
PARIS — Those of us who were around on the West Coast in the ’90s remember the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, aged 18 and 21 at the time, wh…