This can’t continue. We need to talk about Green Hill School, because Washington taxpayers are funding something that has gone terribly, systematically wrong.

Green Hill is called a school. It’s not. It’s a maximum-security facility in Chehalis holding young men who committed serious crimes as juveniles. Murder. Rape. Armed robbery.

They were under 18 when they offended, and the theory is that teenage brains aren’t fully developed, so they deserve different treatment. Eighteen is the magic number: Commit a crime at 17, you’re a juvenile whose brain is still forming. Commit the same crime at 18, you’re an adult heading to adult prison.

Most inmates at Green Hill are now between 18 and 25 years old. If they committed these crimes today, they’d be in Walla Walla. They are grown men behind

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