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Sentencing Law and Policy: Detailing what follows historic Massachusetts ruling on life sentences for young adults

Sentencing Law and Policy: Detailing what follows historic Massachusetts ruling on life sentences for young adults
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What happens now that Massachusetts has banned life without parole for emerging adults?

State prison officials and advocates gear up to help an estimated 200 prisoners expected to be eligible for parole now or in the future.

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State s highest court opens the way for second chances for some lifers

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.

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Mass high court bans life without parole for people under 21, a first in the nation

Judges cited the still-developing “brains of emerging adults” in their ruling Thursday.

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If addiction is a disease, why does the probation system treat relapses as a crime?

The revolving door of court-treatment-prison has to stop.

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