Urge Your State Senator and Representative to Adopt Raise the Wage Bills

By MUUSJN on Sunday, April 21st, 2019

Urge Your State Senator & Representative 

to Adopt Raise the Age Bills to Assure

That 17 Year-Olds Are Not Tried as Adults 

BACKGROUND

This week the House and Senate Judiciary Committees voted, on a bi-partisan basis, to adopt versions of raise the age bill packages that would ensure that 17 year-olds are not automatically tried as adults. Instead, youth can be tried in juvenile justice courts and are less likely to be sent to prisons for adults.  Michigan is one of only four states that prosecutes 17 year-olds as adults. Statistics show that states that have enacted similar raise-the-age laws have experienced a significant decrease in juvenile court referrals and recidivism.

Alicia Guevara Warren, Kids Count in Michigan Project Director at the Michigan League for Public Policy,  said “Michigan is one step closer to joining the rest of the country in having the cases of 17 year olds originate in the juvenile courts”.

CALL YOUR STATE SENATOR: Click HERE for list of Senators.

Tell them: Vote YES on Senate Bills 84 and  90 – 102
To get the name of your State Senator, click HERE. 

CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Click HERE for list of Rep’s.

Tell them: Vote YES on House Bills 4133 – 4146, 4443 and 4452
To get the name of your State Representative, click HERE.

Thank you for taking ACTION

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