Everyday more and more juveniles are placed in adult prisons and pay the price for their actions, but sometimes this is not always the case. “Around 250,000 youth are tried, sentenced or incarcerated as adults in the United States every year. On any given day, around 10,000 juveniles are housed in adult jails and prisons – 7,500 in jails and 2,700 in prisons, respectively” (Curley). When juveniles are put in adult prisons it is merely to make their sentence harder on them, but because of most juveniles not be separated from adults they suffer mental and physical abuse. “The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission described their fate in blunt terms in a 2009 report: “More than any other group of incarcerated persons, youth incarcerated
