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Pennsylvania's juveniles seek relief for life sentences

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

According to 2008 state records, the most recent available, 444 inmates are in prison for life for crimes they committed before their 18th birthdays. However, Bradley Bridge, a defense attorney and reformer, says 2010's total tops 470. Pennsylvania's juveniles seek relief for life sentences By DANA DiFILIPPO Philadelphia Daily News Sep. 30, 2010 TERRANCE Jamar Graham got slammed with life behind bars after committing armed robberies in Florida at ages 16 and 17. Qu-eed Batts snagged his life sentence when he, at age 14, gunned down a teenager in Easton in 2006 on the orders of his Bloods street-gang leader. Today, the two are pioneers in a reformers crusade to abolish life-without-parole sentences for juveniles in the United States. Five years after the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).