North Carolina’s largest health insurer wants to raise rates by 23 percent for policies tied to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s director of health care policy, analyzes factors contributing to the rate increase. Restrepo also offers ideas about ways the state and federal government could change policies to...
RALEIGH — A stint in juvenile detention is tough for kids who run afoul of the law, but it’s nothing compared to time spent in adult prison. Seventeen-year-old M.B., whose name is withheld because he’s a minor, would know. In North Carolina, kids older than 16 are prosecuted as adults. Some are even sent to...
RALEIGH — North Carolina is one step closer toward raising the age for juvenile offenders. House Bill 280, Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, on May 17 passed the state House in a sweeping 104-8 vote. The bill would move 16- and-17-year-old nonviolent offenders out of adult court and place them under the juvenile justice system, effective December...
RALEIGH — A legislative effort to “raise the age” for some juvenile offenders has instead raised concerns about costs. Most lawmakers agree that, in most cases, 16- and 17-year-0lds should not be criminalized as adults, but the impact on taxpayers of leaving those kids in the juvenile system has become a sticking point. Legislators pored over...
RALEIGH — North Carolina is now the nation’s only state charging 16- and 17-year-old delinquents as adults and needs to catch up with the rest of the country, says N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin. Supporters of a bill that would “Raise the Age” for low-level juvenile offenders call North Carolina’s law a disgrace,...
While the juvenile justice system can cost more in the short run, it appears to produce lower rates of recidivism — of young offenders committing more crimes in the future.
Updated, 4:17 p.m. to include statement from Gov. Roy Cooper. RALEIGH — Juvenile offenders 16 and older are charged and tried in North Carolina as adults, no matter how minor the offense. State lawmakers call the law outrageous, and Gov. Roy Cooper agrees. House Bill 280, sponsored by Reps. Chuck McGrady, R- Henderson; Duane Hall,...
