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Juvenile delinquents sentenced to prison more often; detention centers under pressure

Juvenile offenders receive prison sentences increasingly more frequently and are detained longer, figures from the Council for the Judiciary showed, according to NOS. “It is no secret that juveniles rarely come out better”, juvenile judge Susanne Tempel said. “We are seeing more and more young suspects commit serious crimes.” In nearly a quarter of all cases, juveniles were sentenced to …

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SCOTUS Guts Protections Against Sentencing Kids To Die In Prison

LOADING ERROR LOADING In a 6-3 vote, the conservatives on the Supreme Court gutted protections against sentencing kids to die in prison. Zach Gibson/Getty Images In a 2012 case called Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment — although it left in …

Supreme Court OKs life in prison without parole for some juveniles convicted of murder

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a life term in prison without parole for a defendant who was 15 when he fatally stabbed his grandfather in Mississippi, ruling that a sentencing judge need not decide that the young person was “permanently incorrigible.” The 6-3 decision retreats somewhat from a pair of earlier rulings, which said that such life sentences for …

Visitors line up outside of the Supreme Court on Oct. 13, 2015, as the justices begin discussing prisoners who were sentenced as juveniles to life without parole. The issue arises because the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review the case of Brett Jones, who at 15 killed his grandfather and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. …

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers wants to indefinitely delay closing the state’s troubled juvenile prison, spend nearly $200 million more on replacement facilities and increase the age for charging juveniles as adults from 17 to 18. While some of Evers’ juvenile justice ideas have had bipartisan support in the past, they’ve also drawn criticism from Republicans and will likely …