A Good Week for Juvenile Justice, But the Work Isn’t Done [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/2/164:00 AM

It’s been a big week for young people in the justice system.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that those previously sentenced to life without parole as juveniles must have at least a chance at life outside prison walls.

And President Obama’s subsequent ban,announced the same day, on solitary confinement for young people in federal prisons marks another critical acknowledgment of how we need to think about young people in prison. These recognitions — of both science and the human capacity for change — feel like justice. They are steps in the right direction.

[For more of this story, written by Kathy Park, go to http://jjie.org/a-good-week-fo...rk-isnt-done/180470/]

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