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(Editor’s Note: We recommend you listen to this story.)Mark Smith was 17 when he shot and killed another teenager. He got the mandatory sentence – life…
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(Editor’s note: we recommend you listen to this story.) Jose Burgos was 16 years old when he shot and killed Omar Kaji. It happened during a bogus drug…
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Hundreds of juveniles in Michigan have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now they have a chance at freedom.IPR News…
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After 41 years in prison, Detroit man is first, and so far only, juvenile lifer to get second chanceWayne County has more than 150 juvenile lifers, by far the most in the state. As of today, only one of them – and, in fact, the only person among the...
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The 2012 Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama held that mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional. The court...
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Michigan prosecutors have come under national scrutiny for what critics have argued is an effort to ignore, or at least slowly comply with, the recent...
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Court says life for juveniles should be rare. Longtime corrections official says that's about right.All this week, we’re looking at juvenile lifers in Michigan -- those inmates sentenced to mandatory life without the possibility of parole for crimes...