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PA: Does any 11-year old deserve life in prison?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Does any 11-year-old deserve life in prison? By Chris Togneri TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, February 28, 2009 Fears that someone might try to harm an 11-year-old homicide suspect prompted authorities to place extra patrols at a Beaver County detention center, tripling taxpayers' cost to house him, officials said Friday. A week after charging Jordan Anthony Brown with killing his father's fiancee and her unborn son, authorities were still grappling with a system not accustomed to handling children so young accused of such crimes. Large questions loom: Was he capable of premeditated murder? Should he be tried as an adult? Is it inhumane to sentence kids to life in prison without parole? Why did he have access to a gun? Brown was moved Wednesday from the Lawrence County Jail to the Allencrest juvenile center, prompting law enforcement to increase security...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).