Louisiana’s Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can tried as adults.
This is kind of a shit article. It doesn’t even mention what kind of crimes would be included. Unless it’s all felonies, I guess.
<…> would grant legislators the authority, with a two-thirds vote, to determine which juvenile crimes can be transferred to adult courts.
Amendment itself wouldn’t apply to any crime/law, it just gives the authority to legislators to decide on per crime/law basis which they can’t do now because of constitution.
Why is this any kind of priority? What heinous crimes are kids committing that they then get to abuse their legal status as minors? In what numbers???
More people for the prisons. More money for prison owners
