Cenk Uygur
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Arizona Throwing Teen Drug Mules Into Adult Prisons
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May 6, 2016
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6:42Now PlayingMexican drug cartels are increasingly utilizing underage mules to smuggle drugs into the US. One county in Arizona is reacting by prosecuting minors as young as fourteen as adults, and throwing them into adult prisons. Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?) and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The prosecution is part of a new strategy by Cochise County to deter drug cartels from their longtime practice of using children as drug mules.
Since they launched the effort — known as Operation Immediate Consequences — last May, county prosecutors have charged 51 juveniles as adults with drug trafficking, offering them 18 months in an adult prison in exchange for a guilty plea. The youngest was 14.
All but Nieblas and one other accepted the deal, at least in some cases without legal representation.”*
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Hosts: Ben Mankiewicz, Ana Kasparian
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