By Jacob Carpenter
Marco News
LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Charged and sentenced as an adult, 16-year-old Alex Crain is now being treated like a juvenile. Crain, who shot and killed his parents in December 2010, has settled into a juvenile justice facility near Lake Okeechobee, about 125 miles from his Golden Gate Estates home.
He’s one of the fortunate few juveniles in the corrections system to be placed in a Department of Juvenile Justice setting, which juvenile advocates generally agree is better for rehabilitation of violent teens.
It’s been about six months since Crain entered the corrections system, where he was expected to be sent to a Florida prison to serve his 20-year sentence on a manslaughter plea. But corrections officials have agreed to place the teen in a less restrictive Department of Juvenile Justice setting.
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