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and Federal laws that prohibit youth under the age of 18 
from taking on major adult responsibilities such as vot-
ing, jury duty, and military service; 
Whereas youth who are placed under the commitment of the 
juvenile court system often do not receive access to age- 
appropriate services and education and remain far from 
their families, which increases the likelihood that those 
youth will commit offenses in the future; 
Whereas every year in the United States, an estimated 
53,000 youths are tried, sentenced, or incarcerated as 
adults, and most of those youth are prosecuted for non-
violent offenses; 
Whereas most laws allowing the prosecution of youth as 
adults were enacted before the publication of research- 
based evidence by the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention of the Department of Justice dem-
onstrating that prosecuting youth in adult court actually 
decreases public safety as, on average, youth prosecuted 
in adult court are 34 percent more likely to commit fu-
ture crimes than youth retained in the juvenile court sys-
tem; 
Whereas youth of color, youth with disabilities, and youth 
with mental health issues are disproportionately rep-
resented at all stages of the criminal justice system; 
Whereas it is harmful to public safety and to young people 
in the legal system to confine youth in adult jails or pris-
ons where they are significantly more likely to be phys-
ically and sexually assaulted and often placed in solitary 
confinement; 
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Whereas youth sentenced as adults receive an adult criminal 
record that hinders future education and employment op-
portunities; 
Whereas youth who receive extremely long sentences deserve 
an opportunity to demonstrate their potential to grow 
and change; and 
Whereas in October, people around the United States partici-
pate in Youth Justice Action Month to increase public 
awareness on the need to protect the constitutional rights 
of youth, establish a minimum age for arresting children, 
remove youth from adult courts and prisons, end the 
practice of sentencing children to life imprisonment with-
out parole and consecutive sentences that amount to de 
facto life imprisonment without parole, and to provide 
people across the United States with an opportunity to 
develop action-oriented events in their communities: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges that the collateral con-
sequences normally applied in the adult criminal jus-
tice system should not automatically apply to youth 
arrested for crimes before the age of 18; 
(2) expresses support for the designation of 
‘‘National Youth Justice Action Month’’; 
(3) recognizes and supports the goals and ideals 
of National Youth Justice Action Month; and 
(4) recognizes the importance of and encour-
ages the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention to fully implement the Juvenile Justice 
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and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amend-
ed by the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018, in 
a manner in keeping with the spirit and intent of 
the law. 
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