Following the botched attempt to free him, Wade was transferred to a county jail, as scheduled, because he had reached the legalage for adult incarceration.
Also, remember that disabled children are considered to have the legal rights of an adult when they reach the age of 18 years of age even if the disabled person is unable to act on their own.
Since the system is designed to determine the legal status of workers based on names, Social Security numbers and potentially personal biometric identifiers of every working ageadult in America, worries about the system becoming a tool for ever-expanding federal purposes are legitimate.