Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole: ‘You Are My First Visitor in Over 40 Years’ [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 7/21/1712:00 PM

For more than a decade I have interviewed more than 1,000 kids in 35 states. What of these kids who were sentenced to long sentences and JLWOP, life sentences without parole? These kids become adults who become geriatric. These are the people I have interviewed for the past year.

Miller v. Alabama ruled that even in capital cases, juveniles cannot be given life without parole. Montgomery v. Louisiana made these cases retroactive.

In Florida when these people don’t get to go in front of a parole board, now renamed a “sentencing review board,” they have been given de facto life sentences. Other states find workarounds so they don’t have to comply.

[For more of this story, written by Richard Ross, go to http://jjie.org/2017/07/20/you...or-in-over-40-years/]

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