"Texas is basically demonstrating the problems of having this inefficient system that treats 17-year-olds as their own class—they're neither adults, nor are they children," said Elizabeth Henneke, a policy attorney with the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, a nonprofit that supported legislation to raise the age, which failed in the state's legislature this spring.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-is-texas-still-sending-17-year-olds-to-adult-prisons-730
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