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News

CBS Sunday Morning: Worthy of a Second Chance?

CNN: Life in Prison for Teens, 03/18/10

NPR: The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet, 03/01/10

ABC News: Missouri Sets New Standard for Juvenile Detention, 09/09/09

MSNBC: Second Chances, 09/07/09

CNN: Teens Locked Up for Life Without a Second Chance, 04/08/09

St. Petersburg Times: Sentenced to Life, Unintentionally, 03/02/09

New York Times: A Life Term for Rape at 13 - Cruel and Unusual? 02/03/09

U. Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class: Death By Incarceration as a Cruel and Unusual Punishment When Applied to Juveniles, 2009

Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Cruel and Unusual - Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison, 08/05/08

Reuters: Dozens of Children in U.S. Face Life in Prison, 05/21/08

Pacifica Radio: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison, 03/26/08

Birmingham News: Alabama Among 19 States Where Teens Get Life, No Parole, 10/18/07

Philadelphia Daily News: Kids Behind Bars, For Life, 10/26/07

New York Times: Lifers as Teenagers, Now Seeking Second Chance, 10/17/07

NPR: Report Compares Teen Sentencing Around the World, 10/17/07

ABC News: Broken Promises: The Challenge of Juvenile Justice, 05/17/07

Opinion

Miami Herald: Draconian Sentences for Kids Need Fix

Detroit Free Press: Change the Juvenile Lifer Law, 05/04/09

Child Watch Column by Marian Wright Edelman: Sentencing Children to Die in Prison, 08/15/08

The Toledo Blade: It's Cruel to Sentence Teens Ages 13, 14 to Die in Prison, 07/26/08

Birmingham News Letter: Shouldn't Throw Away Kids Before They Mature, Not Even Ashley Jones, 11/25/07

Baltimore Sun: Too Young to Die in Prison, 10/23/07

Birmingham News: From Puberty to the Grave, 10/22/07

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Children in Prison: Locked-up Forever, 10/19/07

On the Web

Sentencing Law and Policy Blog: Does Roper Suggest Young Juve LWOP Is Unconstitutional? 10/23/07

Learn More

Sullivan v. Florida/
Graham v. Florida
Materials on U.S. Supreme Court's review of case challenging death-in-prison sentences for children.

EJI audio NEW: Cruel and Unusual - Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison

EJI audio NEW: MacArthur Foundation - Bryan Stevenson on Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole

Cruel and Unusual: Sentencing 13- and 14-Year-Old Children to Die in Prison
EJI report documents 73 cases where 13- and 14-year-old children in the United States have been tried as adults and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

EJI audio Cruel and Unusual Film Trailer

EJI audio Phillip Shaw - Surviving Death in Prison

EJI audio Ghetto Life 101
13- and 14-year-old boys talk about life in low-income community on Chicago's South Side in award-winning documentary.