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The population in prisons are aging due to longer sentences, mandatory minimum sentences, three strikes rules, truth in sentencing laws, and get tough on crime reforms of 1980s and 1990s. When I read articles like the “Life without Parole” about the two teenagers that brutally murdered a stranger, I think that they will probably be [...]
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In Response to the Human Rights Watch Report entitled The Rest of Their Lives: Life without parole for child offenders in the United States. Found at http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us1005/ I was blown away by the statistic that over 2,000 juveniles are currently serving a sentence of life without parole in the United States while in the rest [...]
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