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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://dcist.com/2010/12/arrest_following_assault_on_pennsyl.php

Arrest for this incident?[/quote]

Yes.  Two interesting items from the neighborhood mailing list:  First, as anybody could have guessed, the assailant was a juvenile;  Second, he was pretty well-known to MPD-1D officers for involvement in various property crimes and assaults in the past; and Third, in the *incredibly* unlikely event he gets any sort of real sentence, he'll be out on the street at his 21st birthday.

[b]I think juveniles who are convicted of violent attacks on innocents should be automatically locked away until they're 30.  By then even the most damaged begin to develop a bit of self-control.[/b]
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I don't think that anyone learns a ton of self control while incarcerated.  If there was any kind of rehabilitation involved and those who were interested in improving themselves were segregated from those who are not, maybe.  If you got most of the inmates good psychiatric services, some medication and some therapy, you might have a prayer of have a productive citizen emerge at 30.[/quote]

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