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November 9, 2009

Supreme Court to Look at Life in Prison for Juveniles
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Here in this country, the Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a
pair of cases to decide whether it is unconstitutionally harsh to
sentence juveniles to life-without-parole. There are more than 1,700
people in the United States who will spend the rest of their life in
prison for crimes committed as juveniles. Some were as young as thirteen
when they committed the crime. No other nation has even a single person
serving such a sentence.



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