There are more teens processed in the adult criminal system in North Carolina than the juvenile system. That may not come as a surprise to most, but what many officials don’t know is that they don’t have to wait for the state to raise the age to stop criminalizing 16- and 17-year-olds. The Youth Justice Project ...
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