Kids and Prison
Today in class we read horrible article on how this 13 year old boy my age killed a man at the age of 11 with a rifle and that he might be trialed as a adult. The prosecutor stated in the trial that “he knew the gun was loaded and how to use it”. The defense said “that if you give a child a gun they will probably shot it”. After this we listened to a radio cast that stated some facts like ”kids under the age of 13 or so that their brain has not fully developed the sense to think things through”. While also saying that he did know what he was doing at the time. In my own opinion I think that kids should never go to adult prisons for many reasons such the kind of stress that is in adult prison. Also I don’t think kids could deal with hardened adults. I think that this kind can sort of to the book monster that we are reading in class because Steve is only 16 but that is still under the normal age andthat is still young in the long run. He to is on trial for murder and is being treated as an adult in many similar ways. That is the main ideas of the artical that we read in class today
