In the USA there are 100,000 children in adult prisons. Children as young as 8 are being tried as adults at the discresion of prosecuting attorneys meaning children are targeted on the basis of race and socio-economic status.
The US Supreme Court has decided that children do not have the same level of responsibility as adults in criminal cases. This has not stopped some states sentencing children as young as 13 to life without parole.
This is the sickness that spreads from ignoring the erosion of human rights. I mention this with the 1,106 children currently held in immigration detention by the Australian Government in mind.
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