I have to be careful as a state employee, but I just want people to understand that Landry keeps pushing this stupid tough on crime agenda at a time when juvenile crime is actually down and recidivism among secure care youth is amazingly low.
Of course Republicans want to charge children as adults; Republicans use prison for slave labor & they need more bodies. Florida is straight up going for child labor.
As we are finding in MO, it doesn’t matter what the voters say. If your govt is Red, they will work the courts and procedure to overturn the will of the voters.
It sounds like they just want to throw younger kids to the wolves already in an adult prison. They’re setting them up to be further abused by the inmates, and the system. What genius politicians thought this was a good plan? It’s disgusting and a sure straight line to sexual abuse and more!🤮👎
It was a “fortunate” defeat!! Folks like Gary Chambers who are Louisiana Grassroots Activists that worked hard to convince the voters to vote against the 4 GOP Amendments!!
Oh my God!! To say that many “of these kids” are already lost and should suffer in adult prisons, it’s the most cruel, and the most anti Christian thing I’ve ever read. People who think like this are monsters.
The lawmakers who want to incarcerate children are the same ones who do nothing to prevent them from going there, like funding Head Start programs, providing daycare so parents can work, having lunch programs at school, and creating community programs that keep kids occupied and off the streets.
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More bodies that take up less space in prisons! These mfers are truly Renaissance Men. s/