“Being a teen charged as an adult is a lesson in dizzying mixed messages. You’re too young to vote or drink, maybe even to drive, and you’ve been told that kids can grow and change. Yet your own future is set out in the starkest terms: years or decades in prison followed by a lifelong criminal record. It’s even weirder to hear that you still have to learn trigonometry.” For The Marshall Project and This American Life, Eli Hager examines whether a violent adult jail can teach kids to love school? The Hardest Lesson.