erly set up to either prosecute or house juvenile offenders. Perhaps the most important thing to analyze when arguing that the adult court system should not handle juvenile offenders is the rate at which those youths tried as adults re-offend.
             When the juvenile system was created in the United States, it was a progression in society. Slowly abandoning the juvenile system in favor of prosecuting minors as adults has negative ramifications that could have a lasing impact on society over the years to come. Juvenile offenders should remain out of the adult court system at all costs.
             While there seems to be much gray area in the matter of prosecuting juveniles as adults, it is often a black and white issue. While justice is supposed to be blind, this doesn't seem to be the case. "It gets more racist," states Michael Jones, researcher for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, when commenting on the progressing stages of the justice system, from the time of a police interview through the time of sentencing. "America ha
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