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- Title
To Restore or Discard: Kids Locked Away for Life.
- Authors
Brendtro, Larry K.; Mitchell, Martin
- Abstract
In 2005, the United States Supreme Court, judging it to be cruel and unusual punishment, ended the execution of juvenile offenders. But the practice of sentencing juveniles to prison for life with- out the possibility of parole presents a much more widespread problem. Presumably future courts will revisit the question of whether growing up in prison until dying there is, in itself, cruel and unusual punishment. Meanwhile, individual states are wrestling with the question of whether there are disposable kids.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Supreme Court; CRIMINAL sentencing; PUNISHMENT; CRUELTY; JUVENILE offenders; LIFE sentences; JUVENILE parole; BEHAVIORAL assessment; CHILDREN
- Publication
Reclaiming Children & Youth, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
1089-5701
- Publication type
Article