Ask Your Legislators To Support Raise the Age
In July, the Senate voted, as part of their economic development bill, to increase the age of juvenile jurisdiction to include 18-year-olds—keeping high school seniors out of the adult prison system.
The House did not include this important language, and a Conference Committee of three state senators and three state representatives have been negotiating the differences between the two bills.
Let's keep up the drumbeat for critical juvenile justice reforms.
Tell
your Representative that: (1) Raise the Age is an economic development
policy and (2) urge the Economic Development Bill conferees to include Raise the Age in the
final bill.
