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"Nearly 500 teens serving life terms in Pa. prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this notable article from this morning's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Here are some excerpts:Pennsylvania leads the nation in teen lifers -- prisoners serving life without parole for crimes they committed as minors -- and last week legislators met to examine the issue for the first time. In a courtroom in Pittsburgh, 18-year-old twins Devon and Jovon Knox faced exactly that fate -- life without parole -- for killing 18-year-old Jehru Donaldson in a botched car-jacking in July 2007, when they were 17.  They join the 444 teen lifers currently held in Pennsylvania prisons, which is about a fifth of the nation's total and 110 more than runner-up Louisiana, according to a May 2008 report by Human Rights Watch...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).