Why Are Kids Getting Cruel And Unusual Punishment?
Why Are Kids Getting Cruel And Unusual Punishment?
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Juwan Wickware wasn't the shooter. But he is one of more than 2,500 people nationwide who will grow from a teenager to an adult to an elderly person behind bars, only leaving prison once they've died.
In yet another illogical and cruel U.S. criminal justice policy, our country has the distinction of being the only in the world that still sentences people to life without the possibility of parole for crimes committed before their 18th birthdays.