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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

ELI 5 How it is legal if a person commits a crime like lets say theft at 16. Then the courts drag their feet so they turn 18 and charge them like an adult?

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ELI 5 How it is legal if a person commits a crime like lets say theft at 16. Then the courts drag their feet so they turn 18 and charge them like an adult?

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Is what jurisdiction is that legal!?
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  Has to be USA.
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    Then the answer is most likely for profit prisons

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