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Lawmaker hopes to keep some juveniles from being charged as adults

November 27, 2017 By Andrew Beckett

Proposed legislation from a Republican state lawmaker would keep some juvenile offenders from being charged as adults.

The bill from state Senator Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon) would allow 17-year-olds who are first-time offenders and are charged with a non-violent crime to be tried as a juvenile. The Marathon Republican says the current system of sending those teens to prison increases the risk that they will commit another crime in the future.

Petrowski says being tried as a juvenile makes it easier to put those offenders in treatment and jail diversion programs, which can provide them with needed resources to prevent a second offense. “People that go through the juvenile system, rather than the adult system, are 50 percent less likely to re-offend,” he says. “This is going to save us money in the long run, in the short run…any way you want to look at it.”

The bill would also direct $5 million in funding to the Department of Children and Families, which would distribute that money to counties to help reimburse them for the cost of providing juvenile delinquency-related services to 17-year-olds.

The bill is currently awaiting a committee hearing at the Capitol.

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