Listen Boy or Girl, you better behave because if you commit a crime, I'm sending you to school and you may even have to go to church. Please don't scare me like that mommy.

All children need mentoring whether they commit a crime or not, mentoring is not punishment. This idea of using the school as a surrogate jail or surrogate punishment is really dumbing down the system and is unfair to the rest of the school kids that are not in trouble. The troubled kids should be required to go to school anyway, have a work program, and be punished.

The reason that these kids are getting into trouble is because they see their elders getting away with criminal activities. The court system has become a revolving door and in most cases, the criminal is arrested and in most cases is back out on the streets immediately or the next day. Crime pays, why should they think that they need to go to school. If you want to make a signifigant difference in the criminal activity, you have to put an end to the career criminals. After all, the career criminals are the role models for the troubled kids. Take the career out of the criminal and the kids will know not to get in to trouble. Beaufort County has alot of work to do to stop these adult repeat offenders, if successful, then you will help the kids immeasurably as well as everyone else.

Bluffton Today (SC) - January 19, 2007

PROSECUTION TEAM FORMED FOR LOWCOUNTRY CRIME FIGHTING
Formation of a collaborative prosecution team aimed at getting more career criminals off the streets faster was announced Thursday by Solicitor Duffie Stone."80 percent of the violent crimes committed in this country are done by 15 percent of the criminals. This is our effort to bring focus to those individuals," said Stone, who heads prosecutions in the Lowcountry's 14th Judicial District...

Beaufort Gazette, The (SC) - January 19, 2007

Task force targets career criminals: Partnership is first of its kind in South Carolina

Jan. 19--A new task force of local, state and federal prosecutors will help take down the area's career criminals, attorneys said Thursday as they outlined the team and its goals at the Beaufort County Courthouse.State and Federal in the 14th Circuit, or SAFE-14, will formally combine the resources of the U.S. Attorney General's Office, the S.C. Attorney General's Office and the 14th Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office so prosecutors can...