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Gov. Cuomo on a recent prison tour. He supports raising the age.
A bid in the state legislature to raise the age for criminal responsibility in New York State may be coupled with a plan to build more prisons.
New York stands virtually alone among states in allowing teenagers to be tried as adults and sentenced to adult prisons. Amid a wave of juvenile justice improvements, these children seem to have been forgotten.
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