UK children in prison

It is good that the UK has ceased to put children 10 or 11 years old in prison in the past 13 years, but calling them "very young children", as this article does, will do them harm in many ways.

Children that age are old enough to do many things on their own, but society has a tendency to treat them as helpless make them effectively prisoners of adults. This leads them to grow up without learning how to organize activities for themselves. The Free Range Kids campaign pushes to change this.

Humans of age 10 and 11 are children, but "very young children" they are not.

I've read that several European countries have set the age of criminal responsibility at 14. I think that is a reasonable policy.

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