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House Subcommittee Considers Bill To End ?Life Without Parole? For Children

By ACLU

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WASHINGTON ? A key House Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing today on a bill to help end the practice of sentencing children to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This legislation, known as H.R. 2289, the Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009, would deny funding to states that refuse to offer a parole option to juvenile offenders and authorizes state grants to improve legal representation for youths charged with life sentences. The hearing was conducted by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).

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