Should Children Who Commit A Crime Be Given A Second Chance or Die in Prison?

"We're witnessing a moment that is not so much a 180 degree change as it is a 360 degree circling back," Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel of the Juvenile Law Center recently told me. "When the juvenile justice system was first established in the United States in 1899, the impetus was the intuitive understanding that we needed to treat children who commit crimes differently than we treat adults."