Although there are many benefits of trying juveniles as adults there are also many downfalls to placing juveniles in adult prisons. First there is a huge age difference. The average age of an inmate is thirty-six. Juveniles in prison are eight times more likely commit suicide. In fact only thirteen percent of the prison population is between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one, yet twenty- two percent of inmate suicides are comprised in that age group (Macallair). They are also twice as likely to get beaten (“Juveniles in Prison”). And they are five times as likely to be raped (Macallair). For example David Bray, when he was seventeen, was burned while serving a sentence in prison. Inmates threw boiling water on him, giving him first and second degree burns on his face. In 1999 a teenage boy lost his eye when inmates beat him with a lock. Sometimes these assaults lead to far. When Michael Myers was fifteen, he was charged with sexually assaulting one of his relatives. Tried as an adult, the judge sentenced Myers to eighteen years in prison. His roommate in prison was Chris Soule, twenty who was in prison for robbery, burglary and grand theft. Two weeks after moving into prison Myers died. Soule had choked him to death. There is the concept of “an eye for an eye” and people may believe that after the crimes these juveniles have committed that they, in essence, had asked for these assaults. Other people may argue because of the high rate of assaults in prison that it is cruel and unusual punishment to place a juvenile in prison.