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Juveniles and Life Without Parole

The University of San Francisco School of Law, Center for Law and Global Justice has issued a report on the sentencing of child offenders: Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison. The report notes that the United States is one of only two countries which permits sentences of life without the possibility of parole for offenders who were under the age of 18 at the time of their offenses. (via Crim Prof. Blog).

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