Yes, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has historically changed the laws of chattel by increasing the age of emancipation for a youth from 15 years to 17 years, to "treat" this increased population of offenders to be transferred under the laws of asset forfeiture to give corporations parental rights, to "reduce their contact with the system" because the child welfare system is the largest industry in the State of Michigan.
By doing so, all records for this population of juveniles, including the current population of juveniles, are able to remain under aegis of the
Type III authority of the State to transfer to their
private, contractual child welfare operations to create jobs and maximize the revenues of its Children's Trusts.
Besides, you can keep this population under the auspices of the State until the age of 25, now, and when you do that, through that corporate parental rights proxy, a foreign corporation possesses the control of the absentee votes of that population, too!
Think of all the financial leveraging these foreign, private contracted, child welfare, non taxable child welfare NGOs can do.
We must save these savage children so we can continue more stealin' children, land & votes.
Praise the lord.
Before you are a man, you are a child.
After you are a child, you are a juvenile.
How did I come to this conclusion?
I see
Pete Lucindo, who stands to make a shitload of money.
My question is, how come no one challenged this?
The States are reengineering child welfare law by rewriting chattel law.
Christian chattel law is the law of property ownership in establishing manifests for the human asset management of the children's trusts.
Where the hell is the Vatican on this.... oh, wait, I forgot....
Holy See is about to meet Holy Shit when it comes to trafficking tiny humans.
Lansing — Bills that would treat 17-year-olds in Michigan’s criminal justice system as juveniles instead of adults were signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what supporters called a "historic reform."
Michigan joins 46 other states who already treat 17-year-olds as juveniles or are preparing to do so. During a bill signing ceremony at the Capitol, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist said the legislation would prevent kids from spending a lifetime in and out of prison.
"We can reduce their contact with the system," Gilchrist said. "We can ensure that more young people go down real paths to careers that make sense for them and allow them to live out their best potential … We can change the trajectory for life for thousands of people here in the state of Michigan."
Thursday's signing ceremony came after a years-long "raise the age" campaign and eventual passage in the past month by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
In 2014, the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency published a report on the treatment of young people in the state’s adult jails. The report found that 17-year-olds faced sexual and physical assaults and their incarceration as adults increased the risk they would commit additional crimes after release.
Jason Smith, director of youth justice policy for the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency, said 17-year-olds in the adult criminal justice system don’t receive age appropriate treatment and their families aren’t sufficiently involved.
Smith recalled initial meetings he had with former Rep. Harvey Santana, D-Detroit, in 2014 about the "raise the age" legislation. Smith said the push to get the bills through the Legislature was a "long road."
"We are celebrating today,” Smith added. "This is a historic reform for Michigan’s youth."
Criminal justice reform has become a focus of the Whitmer administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Lawmakers have a better understanding today than they had 20 years about the types of systems that will rehabilitate offenders instead of simply "locking people up," Gilchrist said.
Former Rep. Joe Haveman, R-Holland, attended Thursday’s signing ceremony since he worked on a series of criminal justice reforms while serving in the Legislature from 2009 through 2014.
"We knew this stuff was going to succeed eventually," Haveman said. "You could see the train coming. You could see attitudes change."
If 17-year-olds move to the juvenile system, an increase of 7,564 juvenile cases is expected to occur in Michigan, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency. From July 2015 to July 2016, there were 29,959 juvenile cases overall.
Making that Medicaid Money.
Under the bills, the state would pay the increased costs faced by local governments because of the additional juvenile cases. The change would take effect in 2021.
State law would still allow prosecutors to pursue charging juveniles who commit serious crimes, such as murder or rape, as adults, but opponents of the "raise the age" bills have questioned how often that would actually happen.
Briana Moore of Madison Heights was one of the supporters who attended Thursday’s bill signing. Moore was charged with assault and battery when she was 17 years old because of her involvement in a scuffle at a mall. She was sentenced as an adult to a year of probation.
"Standing there and having my lawyer say you’re being charged as an adult, I’m like I can’t even sign up for the military and I can’t even vote," Moore said.
The adult conviction made it difficult to get a job and to pursue a college education, she said.
Smith noted that 17-year-olds who commit crimes in other states and are treated as juveniles are in better position for their future careers than similar 17-year-olds in Michigan.
"We are doing something right for kids today," Smith said.
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