Too many judges failing to adequately protect society: Is that why with the shifting of authority to waive juveniles to adult courts from judicial decision to prosecutorial discretion, the percentage of cases so moved have remained relatively constant? Moreover, reviews have demonstrated that less than ten percent of sentences deviate from court norms, with these disparities as likely to be excessively draconian as arbitrarily lenient, while American prisoners already serve some of the harshest sentences in the world.

Limited class of offenders sent straight to adult court: Limited class of offenders? With one-half of one-percent of juveniles arrested for violent offenses (the majority of which are street corner tussles), two-thirds of juvenile cases moved to adult court were for non-violent offenses.

Confined in adult prisons while still segregated from adult inmates: Really? "Simply put," comments Vincent Schiraldi, the Director of the Center on Juveniles and Criminal Justice, "adult prisons are a nightmare." Over three-quarters of the states house juveniles in adult prisons with no special programs or educational services. Children in such are five times as likely to be sexually assaulted by other inmates, twice as likely to be beaten by staff, and horrifyingly eight times as likely to commit suicide as compared to adults in the same prisons. According to Corrections Today, "Placing them in adult prisons constitutes deliberate indifference to their well-being and dehumanizes them."