Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences Are a Failed Policy That Needs to End

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The US Sentences Kids to Life in Prison Without Parole
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Easy to say if someone close to you has never been harmed, but I doubt so many victims would agree that it's wrong. People who are victims also have a right for justice to be done on their behalf. It's not something you can just wave away.

What's a solution that doesn't do damage to others, let alone doing damage to someone who may still be redeemable? The event can't be undone. There's no way to change that. The outcome that does the most good should be the one used, not the one that makes you feel good because you got them back, which doesn't help anyone. That momentary joy will be gone in time, but the suffering of either party will never be changed.

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