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For years the Massachusetts State Police kept material for criminal cases at the old Fernald school, including graphic evidence for homicide investigations and at least one unsolved murder, accessible to any trespasser.
Massachusetts will longer be allowed to sentence 18- to 20-year-olds to life in prison without parole, heeding science that says their brains are not fully developed.
The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ordered the state to raise from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole