Claim: Of "30,000 individuals arrested a year for crimes that are 16 or 17, over 95 percent of them do not result in a criminal conviction. Only 1.5 percent of them ultimately go to state prison."
Fact-check: Raise the Age: How NY treats 16- and 17-year-olds in court
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Dan Clark
Date published: 2017-04-03T00:00:00