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‘Raise the Age’ Gets New Look in Connecticut [JJIE.org]

 

Connecticut’s governor has launched a new attempt at a groundbreaking juvenile justice reform effort this year, pushing to raise the age at which most young offenders go before an adult court to 21.

Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed the same plan in 2016, only to see it stall in the state legislature. But if he succeeds this year, Connecticut would be the first to raise the age beyond 18 for all but the most serious offenses, such as murder, assault with a firearm and rape.



[For more of this story, written by Matt Smith, go to http://jjie.org/2017/01/19/rai...look-in-connecticut/]

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