most juvenile crime cases are currently handled by the juvenile court system. If given

permission, juveniles can be tried as adults, but current laws prohibit juveniles from being

housed with adult criminals. So most juveniles convicted as adults are housed in juvenile

facility until they reach the age of 18. There are about 100,000 juvenile offenders annually

who are on probation in California. The majority of these offenders are on formal

probation, which means that they appear in front of court to resolve their cases. In most

informal case, they not need to appear in front of the court, because the probation

department is able to directly impose needed sanctions. After the completion of informal

probation, juveniles have their records wiped clean.

For proposition 21 the government has come up with an initiative, which would try

offenders as adults rather than juvenile. Proposition 21 would require juvenile offenders

14 years or older to be charged as adults. It would eliminate informal probation, and

further limit confidentiality for juveniles who are charged with or convicted of specified

felonies. Proposition would require

a second strike. 500 were incarcerated for a violent or serious offense, 164 were for

youth, this law also offers juveniles educational programs.

Proposition 21 was also established to supposedly make communities safer, but in reality

millions dollars annually, due to higher cost of the adult court and prison system. Also the

record. One must ask, is justice really being served here?

will be considered a strike because it would be a felony.

age. Only a few weeks ago a youth in my area was caught robbing a liquor store at

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