From the Editorial Board: We all know that teens and young adults are prone to making rash, irrational choices. There has to be a balance between a punishment that fits the crime and a sentence that takes into account a young person’s immaturity.
Newspapers and broadcasts teem with stories about teens and young adults committing crimes — many of them horrible and violent. Justice demands a fair trial, and if juries convict, then the appropriate sentence must be meted out. If the crime is heinous enough to warrant a longer sentence, so be it.
But we all know that teens and young adults are prone to making rash, irrational choices. There has to be a balance between a punishment that fits the crime and a sentence that takes into account a young person’s immaturity. Are there times when circumstances surrounding a young person’s crime warrant a second chance, an opportunity for an inmate to make a case for an earlier release?State Rep.
Second chances inherently carry risk. Someone guilty of a crime who gets a second chance may embrace the right path moving forward, or may sink back into old habits. The rights and feelings of victims must be weighed too. So must the safety of the broader community. Society must decide whether the risk is worth it, whether redemption is possible.
But the value of Lewis’ legislation is its specific focus on teens and young adults, whose brains are still developing. That has to be taken into account, as the justice system assesses inmates’ potential to relapse into criminal behavior as older adults. “Many people convicted of crimes as children and young adults will age out of crime and not commit crimes later in life,” the Rev.
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