“Instead of imposing sentences that help rehabilitate juvenile offenders so they return to their communities with the skills, judgment and motivation to contribute, the system instead broadcasts to 15, 16 and 17-year-olds that they’ve blown their chance at a future and their fate is set, no matter their willingness to make amends. How discouraging that Oregon’s communities would believe themselves to be so fragile.“

The Oregonian

April 28, 2019