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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notice how the car-jackers rarely drive in to Virginia. Also, if it's children that are stealing these cars then these kids need to give up the names of their adult gang leaders or suffer severe jail time. Someone has to serve major time and I would rather have it be the gang leaders, but if all you can get are these low-level teens, then so be it, let them see what real jail time looks like.[/quote]

Dwayne Betts - a 16 year old from PG county - traveled to Virginia where he carjacked a guy with a gun in a mall parking lot. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to seven years. His book was excellent in that so few of his intelligence write about this experience with depth. A graduate of Yale Law today, he clearly understands the significance of trying these cases in the adult fora. Yet he would contend prison was not the right place for him.

It is tempting ascribe his crime as the product of racial isolation and fatherlessness, topics he discusses. But he was taking AP physics and getting scholarship offers from places like Georgia Tech.  There is an argument that imposing consequences will matter.

One of the things that struck me was how unhelpful some elements of the black community were. Howard pulled his admission and scholarship on learning of his crime. University of Maryland accepted him and he excelled. [/quote]

It appears that prison did benefit him. DC doesn't seem to churning out Yale Law graduates with their carjacking sentences. [/quote]

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