House and Senate negotiators hashing out a final deal on a sweeping jobs and business support package need to decide whether the measure should also embrace a major criminal justice reform: allowing many 18-year-olds to be tried in the youth justice system, not adult courts.
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Task force weighs raising juvenile court age
FERNANDO WILLIAMS was just 14 when he entered the juvenile justice system. Eleven years later, he’s gone through both the Department of Youth Services and, starting at 19, the Middlesex […]
