Opinion: Teen-run courts dispense justice, launch legal careers
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For more than 40 years, teen courts across the 50 states have proven their success at letting high school students — serving as lawyers, jurors, bailiffs and judges — determine the real-life sentences of alleged juvenile offenders who are their peers.
Such programs can double as a pre-law apprenticeships for high school students, while also aiming to divert juvenile offenders from incarceration.