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Posted inCriminal Justice

Louisiana leads nation in percentage of people in adult prisons for crimes they committed as kids

A new report by the national non-profit Human Rights for Kids has found that the degree to which the United States punishes crimes committed by kids is far out of line with international standards, calling the mass incarceration of children as adults “one of the largest government-sanctioned human rights abuses against children in the world […]