21. -- Increasing the maximum time a juvenile offender can be committed to a Texas Youth Commission facility. 22. A crackdown on juvenile offenders. 23. According to the police report, the juvenile offender told the apprehending officers that he had been paid by several females to run naked across the field. 24. Advocates for children have long maintained there are systemwide problems, but have been unable to document them because of confidentiality restrictions involving juvenile offenders. 25. Breaking with the past, it says that pregnant women and juvenile offenders cannot be executed. 26. Bush has called for stricter punishments for juvenile offenders and building more lock-ups to house those who commit crimes. 27. But because attempted robbery is not a crime covered by the juvenile offender law, the murder sentence is limited to five years, the Family Court maximum. 28. But not, she said, at the expense of safeguards against treating juvenile offenders as adults except in the most serious cases. 29. But now Congress is moving to eliminate that and other protections for juvenile offenders. 30. But she stressed the need for rehabilitation, especially for juvenile offenders, who she said should not spend the rest of their lives behind bars. |