Should Teens Have Pay For Being Insane - 2440 Words

Andrea Cantu Rough Draft Pavlecic ERWC 4 4 May 2015 Should Teens Have to Pay for Being Insane? All over the United States, thousands of teens have been tried as adults. Around three thousand have been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Teens thirteen years old have been sentenced to die in prison, without any attention to their age or offense. Now tell me if i’m crazy but these kids won’t even be able to live their life, not get the chance to experience how life really is, or graduate, get married, or have kids. Their life will never begin because they are going to trapped in a place where they might be influenced to commit the crime again or any crime for that matter. Everyone knows that teens make stupid decisions, but†¦show more content†¦The real problem is discipline, if kids are not disciplined as they get older then it s already too late in their teenage years. Now i m not saying that every teen is like this, but it s a majority of teens that just don t care and do what they want. So why not try to help these teens instead of throwing th em in jail with people that might influence them to keep doing those things and think about their future and how we can help them for the better. Why send them to a place where they are surrounded by bad people. Now i’m not saying that every teen should just get help, it all depends on the crime. Like if they are selling drugs or they steal from a store they should not be tried as an adult because that is normal teen behavior. But at the same time that doesn’t mean that it’s okay, but it is something that you will hear a lot about that thats what teens get in trouble for. Now, if they kill someone, or stab, or shoot someone then they should be tried as an adult because then something is really wrong with you. But even then, It†s not a good idea to put them in a place where people have had experience with stuff like that. That would do nothing for them and they would keep doing the same thing.Too many people have been to jail and back, for drugs and stealing, and that does nothing for them. Reporter from CNN News Mathew Roden â€Å" Some young teens cannot manage the emotional, social,