150,000 Children Tried As Adults Each Year

Todays New York Times; [nytimes.com ](nytimes.com)

“The difference between that poor child and felon is about eight years”, & “90% of the youth in juvenile justice have passed through child protection systems” MN Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz

“America has created a Pipeline to Prison for its poor children”, Marion Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund

“If you define institutions by what they create, instead of what they were designed to create,” (Kathleen Long, Author, Angels & Demons) then, “Child protection services creates preteen moms and adolescent felons”, Mike Tikkanen