
Juvenile "Justice" with Josie Duffy Rice
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I Love Due Process Rights
Due process doesn't exist for children until the early 1960s, when we see a case called Enray Gold. The Supreme Court basically says like kind of disavows his parents' patriot idea as an excuse for why kids don't have due process rights. They say like, even though kind of the goal is to rehabilitate kids, you're still taking away their liberty. Lots of the kids that we saw who went to Mount Meggs in the 1960s went for loitering and breaking curfew but not criminal or are not criminal for adults.
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