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Boston Globe supports raising the age: The Boston Globe ran the following editorial on Sunday:

Keep 17-year-olds out of adult prisons APRIL 14, 2013 | Under Massachusetts law, 17-year-olds are treated as adults in the criminal justice system. A sensible effort is underway in the Legislature to raise that age of juvenile jurisdiction to 18.

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