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Originally Posted by parmnion

My point exactly..its futile.

Only way is to dope them up enough so they cant move.

This isn't really true or accurate though, the successful rehabilitation rate of child offenders is actually very high (much higher than the rate for adult prisoners), someone like Venables is an extreme example of it not working, but he is the exception rather than the rule.

Many child offenders had no idea what they were doing at the time and are completely non-violent as adults.

Also the reason for not locking up child offenders in adult prisons isn't just for the protection of the child from violence. In fact, most "hardened" criminals WOULDN'T harm a child. More likely scenario is that career criminals would end up taking child prisoners "under their wing" for the years that they're in there and by the time they're released, they'll be criminal mini-me's ripe for reoffending.