Trying children as adults doesn't work, a report by the Just Kids Partnership concludes, which studied 135 cases in Baltimore. The authors say the system turns teens into more hardened criminals and subjects them to abuse. You can read the report here.
The debate comes as the state starts to build a new $100 million facility to house children charged with adult crimes.
What the report questions is the practice of automatically charging children as adults in some serious crimes. As The Sun's Tricia Bishop writes today: