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Florida justice: Tough on youths

TALLAHASSEE - While other young men were heading to college or finding their first jobs, Terrance Graham entered a state prison at the age of 19 where he will spend the rest of his life. The Jacksonville man, in the words of his own attorney, was "no angel." At 16, he was convicted of armed burglary. He violated his probation at 17 by fleeing police after a home invasion robbery.Everyone agreed that Graham should be punished. Corrections officials recommended a four-year sentence. Prosecutors demanded a 30-year term. But a judge imposed the harshest sentence a juvenile criminal could face in the United States: life without parole.Outside of Florida, no other prisoner in the nation is serving a life sentence without parole for a juvenile burglary conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).