I’m sympathetic to the principle of not treating juveniles as adults, but I also don’t see where sending them back to a family or neighborhood with a criminal history is going to make much difference either.

Alison Parker, the U.S. program director for Human Rights Watch, argues the laws should change. “Common sense says that kids are different from adults,” she says. “Kids can grow and change. They are extremely unlikely to reoffend.”

I think that last sentence is BS. Unlikely to re offend if what?