Children & the Law Blog

This Houston Chronicle report begins with a telling statistic on the rate of juveniles certified as adults in Harris County, where it is estimated that 90 percent of certification petitions filed by prosecutors are approved.

Since state and local authorities declared war on juvenile crime in the 1990s, Harris County courts consistently have prosecuted more underage teens as adults than four other major Texas counties combined.

Houston Chronicle: More youths are tried as adults in Harris County