New York Governor Andrew Cuomo writes an editorial in The New York Daily News advocating for raising the age that young people are charged as adults in criminal actions. "New York shares the dubious distinction with North Carolina of being the only states in the nation that still prosecute 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, placing these teenagers into a criminal justice system that will do them more harm than good and actually make our communities less safe in the long run," Cuomo writes. "We have proposed increasing the state’s age of criminal responsibility as an adult to 18 and providing more appropriate handling of young defendants’ criminal cases. A bill is now before the Legislature. It is time to enact these reforms, which are already fully funded in the budget." Read the full story in The Daily News.