Ratifications made on the juvenile justice system have “since the changes, the number of youth placed directly in the adult system in Colorado has fallen by nearly 85 per percent and that the rate of adult imprisonment of juveniles decreased by 92 percent, without an increase in juvenile delinquency. (Schwartz 8) That said, this suggests that perhaps the juvenile justice system needs to be examined in order to finally reach a verdict on juvenile offenders. It is necessary to guarantee the procedure for prosecuting offenders because it determines the legitimacy of the system. In addition, the opportunities that are sometimes offered to young offenders give them another chance to redeem themselves and prove to society that they are reintegrated. Kim Dvorchak, executive director of a coalition (example in Schwartz's article) states that "we have given more children the opportunity to have a second life" (Schwartz 9). His vision for how to prosecute young offenders is to return and educate them in order to reconcile them with society, instead of destroying another life. Later in the text, Dvorchak states that the old system “put too much power in one place: prosecutors” (Schwartz 12). She emphasizes that now that there are new