21.   It was this last provision, opposed by advocates for youthful offenders, that provoked the most controversy.

22.   Most youthful offenders in the state came from poor households.

23.   One that was tougher on youthful offenders.

24.   Other clubs started operations at such unusual locations as military bases, a shopping mall, a center for the homeless and a correctional institution for youthful offenders.

25.   That prompted Justice Antonin Scalia to quiz Tigar about how antiquity had treated youthful offenders.

26.   The court noted that a youthful offender had not been executed in Florida in a quarter of a century.

27.   The juvenile justice bill, which would impose stricter penalties on youthful offenders, is still awaiting action by a panel of House and Senate negotiators.

28.   The state had originally hired the company to build two youthful offender prisons overseen by the Department of Corrections.

29.   The sympathy shown to children contrasts with the severity dealt to adult criminals in Japan, but now the patience for youthful offenders seems acutely strained.