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Florida 12-Year-Old Faces Life Without Parole in Murder Case

The continuing debate about sentencing juveniles to life without parole has real-world implications for a 12-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Fla., accused of killing his two-year-old half-brother. The...

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Significant Racial Discrepancies in Michigan’s Juvenile Life Without Parole...

A number of racial discrepancies were found among Michigan’s juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) population in a new report released by the American Civil Liberties Union in conjunction with Second...

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Suspense Builds in Advance of Supreme Court Ruling on Juvenile Sentencing

WASHINGTON – While most of the nation anxiously awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the federal health care law, juvenile justice reform advocates are on tenterhooks...

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Appeals Accepted in First Miller Cases

Less than three weeks after a Supreme Court ruling mandated it, an Iowa court gives two inmates the right to appeal the life without parole sentences they were given years ago when they were 17 years...

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Connecticut Mulls Outlawing Juvenile Life Without Parole

Connecticut’s Sentencing Commission is currently evaluating a proposal that would outlaw juvenile sentences of 10 years or greater without parole opportunities, The CT Mirror reports. The proposal, if...

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Juveniles Serving Life Sentences Not Entitled to New Hearings

The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. (MCT) Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled a U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared sentences of life without parole for juveniles unconstitutional cannot...

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Appeal Likely in Juvenile Lifer Ruling

Ruhrfisch / WikipediaFive of seven judges seats in the Supreme Court chamber in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. From The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (MCT) Joseph Aulisio killed...

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Sparing Children from Life in Prison without Parole

West Memphis Police Department via CBS News / WikipediaWest Memphis Police Department mug shots of the "West Memphis Three" WASHINGTON – Jason Baldwin hopes to spare others from growing up, growing old...

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Michigan Attorney General to Appeal Order Giving Juvenile Lifers Chance for...

Aaronjbaylis / WikipediaMichigan Attorney General Bill Schuette delivers his address at his inauguration on the steps of the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on January 1, 2011 Michigan’s attorney general...

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OP-ED: Reflections on Miller v. Alabama: Roses, Thorns and Buds

To generate some (hopefully) meaningful conversation around our dinner table, I have begun to use a tool that my daughters picked up at one of their summer camps: “Rose, thorn and bud.” We each...

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Former Inmate, Advocates and Attorneys Honored for Work to Reform Sentencing

Sharletta C. Evans (right) with Joanne Lewis, the mother of one of the killers of her son. After Joanne asked Sharletta to forgive her for her son’s actions, the two became close friends and now speak...

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We Can Hold Youths Accountable Without Life Without Parole

When I was 17, I accepted a plea agreement and 25-year prison sentence to avoid the likelihood of spending the rest of my life in prison. I had been involved in the death of another person. Prosecutors...

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JLWOP Ruling in D.C. Sniper’s Case Could Clear Way for More Juvenile...

A federal appeals court’s ruling in the case of Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo could speed the resentencings of people serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed as teens in...

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Death Penalty Questions Getting More Input From Science

The Marshall Project When 15-year-old Luis Cruz joined the Latin Kings in 1991, he was a child by almost any measure: He couldn’t legally drive, drop out of school or buy a beer. But was he still a...

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