Roughly three quarters of the population at the Green Hill School, a boys’ juvenile detention facility, are actually adults between 18 and 25 thanks to Democrat-backed legislation that is failing everyone involved.
Of the 207 juvenile inmates housed in the Chehalis facility, 152 are between 18 and 25 years old as of August 2024. The majority of the inmates committed felony robbery (37%), followed by murder/manslaughter (19%), assault (18%), burglary (11%), and rape/rape of a child (6%). These are already hardened criminals, some with gang connections.
Though the inmates committed serious offenses and many will eventually be transferred to adult prison at 25, these inmates are housed with vulnerable, criminal teens who’s progress may be stymied due to influence of older inmates they may look up to. This is by design…