Prosecuting Children as Adults

Summary

The proposal would bar adult detention facilities from holding children transferred to adult court unless the child waives a due‑process hearing, and it would revise how prosecutors can move juveniles to adult prosecution. It adds new criteria for direct filing of charges against 14‑ and 15‑year‑olds and mandates a timely judicial hearing to decide if the child should be tried as an adult. These changes aim to give juveniles greater procedural safeguards.

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