Sensationalism should not drive policy change, especially policy change that might eliminate something that would be extremely costly to rebuild from the ground up in the future. Children and adult criminals need to be separated from one another by both outcomes of sentencing and in a physical sense of space. There is no better reason to argue for the continuation of the juvenile court system than this argument. Resolution of this issue, in the opinion of this researcher is for this legislator to vote against the current bill to eliminate the juvenile court. Enough has already been done, by reactionary policy reforms to weaken it and instead of disbanding it needs to be reformed and to some degree rebuilt with the original ideals in mind and a limitation on mandatory sentencing and standardized practices as these reforms...

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