Juvenile criminals should not be tried as adults Today's justice system is faced with many difficult decisions. One of the most controversial is whether to try young people as adults or not. With the rapid increase in the number of children in adult prisons and jails, there are questions about why children have committed such heinous crimes and how they will be stopped. The fact of the matter is that children are not always to blame for their poor choices and actions; they are simply victims of their environment or their parents. Another question asked is how young is too young. Children too young to see an R-rated film unaccompanied are sent to adult prisons. The only limits that seem to matter when it comes to being an adult are the laws that prevent children from doing things like alcohol, pornography, and other materials considered unethical. Children who are sent to adult prison will be subjected to even more unprincipled ideas and scenes. When children can be sent to prison for something as minor as burglary, the justice system makes mistakes. Laws that send juveniles to adult prisons are inhumane, immoral and unjust. Children are often incompetent, which leads to unfair trials. Adult prisons are also very dangerous for juveniles, and in many cases this leads to more youth crime. People favor sending juveniles to adult prisons for many reasons. One reason is that it is the courts' job to help protect society. Once a troubled youth is sent to an adult prison, he or she is excluded from society. Hopefully when they return, the punishments they received will be imprinted in their brains and will prevent them from making any mistakes again. Another reason why people think that disturbed youth cannot be saved is that punishment will not save them from themselves and they will simply have to be locked up forever. It is thought to be true that juveniles sent to prison will never commit the same crime or even any crime again. All the reasons and opinions that juveniles should be sent to adult prisons for their heinous crimes seem logical. Despite this, they are not. There are more rational reasons why teenagers should be sent to their own private penitentiary. One reason for sending juveniles to a separate prison than