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Aug. 27, 2011
'The deep end’ of the juvenile justice system
A 15-year-old is sentenced to six years in juvenile "boot camp" for an offense that would have cost an adult only two months. By David Tanenhaus
The 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision in In re Gault has been widely celebrated as the most important children's rights case of the 20th century. When 15-year-old Gerald Gault of Globe, Arizona, allegedly made an obscene phone call to a neighbor, he was arrested by the local police, who failed to inform his parents. After a hearing in which the neighbor didn't even testify, Gault was promptly sentenced to six years in a juvenile &...
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