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Why Raise the Age? This reform will decrease crime. Young adults are highly amenable to rehabilitation. Keeping 18 - 20-year-olds in the juvenile system, where they must attend school and participate in rehabilitative programming will lower recidivism.
A Dorchester man accused of strangling his own mother to death while she was on the phone trying to get him help pleaded guilty Monday afternoon.
The state Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Monday in two cases that ask whether it is constitutional for people between the ages of 18 and 20 — who are sometimes referred to as "emerging adults" — to receive mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Massachusetts already bans such sentences for those under 18.
Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her ...
Former Boston College student Inyoung You pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the suicide of her boyfriend, Boston College student Alexander Urtula, according to a joint sentencing memorandum.