Show growth of juvenile crime attributed to neglect 0 of f biblical injunction by JOHN 8 KENNEDY president now new york prison commission juvenile delinquency has become a serious problem in new york yoa state the experience of ton ten years in dealing with prisons and their inmates lias has convinced me that fail failure tire to observe the biblical injunction train up a child in the way lie should go lind and even when lie ho is old lie ho will not nob depart from it ik is the alie principal cause of youth in practically every place where criminals are confined boys sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty and twenty one years of age lire aro f found charged 0 with crimes of violence murder burglary assault holdup and robbery and in so many instances these aliese youths showed a bold ncsa and bravado and a lack of bf reven repentance tance for their crimes beyond understanding for the year ending 0 june 30 last boys between sixteen and twenty years old were admitted to the county jails of the state upstate up state penitentiaries aries received between the ages ages 0 of twelve and twenty and who had readied reached their twenty first year in new york city boys boya and young men were incarcerated in the municipal prisons exclusive of the cases disposed of in magistrates courts and not committed to prison |