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States reconsider life behind bars for youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 12, 2008 States reconsider life behind bars for youth With nearly 2,400 inmates sentenced to life as juveniles, the U.S. is the only nation imposing the mandate on children. By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Chicago How should a society treat its youngest criminal offenders? And the families of victims of those offenders? Half a dozen states are now weighing these questions anew, as they consider whether to ban life sentences for juveniles that don't include a option for parole ? and whether those now serving such sentences should have a retroactive shot at parole. Here in Illinois, proposed legislation would give 103 people ? most convicted of unusually brutal crimes ? a chance at parole hearings, while outlawing the sentence for future young perpetrators...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 15, 2008 (boomark / email).