"In a handful of U.S. counties, teenagers are still being sentenced to a lifetime in prison with no chance of release. This harsh and increasingly isolated practice falls disproportionately on black and Hispanic youth and is a remnant of an earlier period of punitiveness based on an unfounded prediction of a new class of superpredators that never actually materialized."
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In
a handful of U.S. counties, teenagers are still being sentenced to a
lifetime in prison with no chance of release. This harsh and
increasingly isolated practice falls disproportionately on black and
Hispanic youth and is a remnant of an earlier period of punitiveness
based on an unfounded prediction of a new class of superpredators that
never actually materialized. - See more at:
http://www.phillipsblack.org/juvenile-justice/#sthash.jDo5alnX.dpuf
In
a handful of U.S. counties, teenagers are still being sentenced to a
lifetime in prison with no chance of release. This harsh and
increasingly isolated practice falls disproportionately on black and
Hispanic youth and is a remnant of an earlier period of punitiveness
based on an unfounded prediction of a new class of superpredators that
never actually materialized. - See more at:
http://www.phillipsblack.org/juvenile-justice/#sthash.jDo5alnX.dpuf
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