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Juvenile defendants are getting processed in a system that is not geared to deal appropriately with them. Focusing on punishment rather than rehabilitation for juvenile offenders, we put them into a system that is treating children in a manner that is fundamentally unfair. When a young person commits a serious crime, the criminal justice system seems ill-equipped to properly handle the situation. There are numerous problems with the adult court system as it pertains to trying juvenile defendants. Our system of justice doesn’t seem to have been made to handle juveniles who commit serious crimes. The blanket solution seems to be to treat ...