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Send Children To Prison

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In the US, 54 thousand children are incarcerated every night for committing crimes. In Chile, if a child breaks the law, he or she is sent to SENAME institution or group homes with trained caregivers. I am of the point of that Chilean Criminal Justice System should not send children to prison, because it causes many problems in kids and it costs a lot of money. Money that is necessary for other matters in our country and problems that we do not have at all.

The first reason I want to point out is that once teenagers are sent to prison, they get worst. For instance, in countries such as the US, it has been demonstrated that once children are in jail, they start to develop certain disorders like PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) or ADHD
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