What should be the maximum permitted sentence for a 14-year-old offender?

[Frodo]

I'm assuming those voting for life imprisonment or death are doing so tongue-in-cheek.... 

Twenty years maximum is what I voted for.  Unlike most offenders in adult prisons, juveniles can still be rehabilitated. 

[Frodo]

I'm assuming those voting for life imprisonment or death are doing so tongue-in-cheek.... 

Twenty years maximum is what I voted for.  Unlike most offenders in adult prisons, juveniles can still be rehabilitated. 

Any particular reason why you think that's the case? I don't see why an adult would be un-reformable beyond the fact that prisons tend to cause more problems then they're worth.

Younger offenders (being more malleable) can more easily be rehabilitated than older inmates who are generally more set in their ways, and more given to recidivism upon release.