Media Coverage of JLWOP

Here are a smattering of articles and opinions that have been published on the issue of CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. 

Not just my opinion but the opinion of many across the country.  We all ask the same question “What are we doing with our kids?”

Media Coverage of JLWOP/Supreme Court Issue

• New York Times: Justices Consider the Role of Age in Life Sentences

• NPR: High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors

• Boston Globe Op-Ed: A 2nd Chance at Freedom for Juvenile Offenders

• Washington Post Editorial: Locked Away Forever

• New York Times Editorial: Imprisoning a Child for Life

• Washington Post: Justices Will Scrutinize Life Sentences for Youths

• Newsweek: Second Chances

• Washington Post Op-Ed: A Sentence Too Cruel for Children

• NPR: Should Juveniles Be Sent to Jail for Life?

• Los Angeles Times Editorial: Cruel Life in Prison

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution Op-Ed: Is There No Redemption for Children?

• New York Times: Justices to Hear Challenges of Life Terms for the Young

• SCOTUSBlog: Inquiring Into the Juvenile Mind

• Yahoo News: High Court to Look at Life in Prison for Juveniles

• Huffington Post Op-Ed: U.S. Shouldn’t Jail Youth for Life

• Slate: All Locked Up

• Associated Press: High Court to Look at Life in Prison for Juveniles

• Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial: Throwing Away the Key

• Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Don’t Give Up on the Kids

• Miami Herald Op-Ed: Juveniles’ Life Sentences Are Too Cruel

• Times of London: “Thug” Senator Alan Simpson Condemns Teen Convicts’ Life Sentence

• ACS Blog: Supreme Court Should Apply Roper Reasoning to Upcoming Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Cases

• St. Petersburg Times Op-Ed: Myths of Get-Tough Law

• ABA Journal: Adult Time for Adult Crimes

• Findlaw: The Case Against Juvenile Life Without Parole

• National Law Journal: The Juvenile Damned

• National Public Radio Blog: Are Life Sentences for 13-Yr Olds Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

• Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Sending Children to Prison for Life

• Los Angeles Times: Letters to the Editor

• New York Times Editorial: The Supreme Court Returns

• The Wall Street Journal: Life in Prison for Minors - Cruel and Unusual?

• The Root: Former Republican Senator and Charles ‘Roc’ Dutton Want No More Life in Prison for Teenagers

• St. Petersburg Times Editorial: Life for Juveniles Needs Reviewing

• New York Times: Justices Agree to Take Up Sentencing for Young Offenders

• Washington Post: High Court to Look at Life Sentences for Juveniles

• CNN: Teens Locked Up for Life Without Second Chance

• New York Times Column: A Life Term for Rape at 13: Cruel and Unusual?

• Sentencing Law and Policy Blog: SCOTUS Grants Cert in Sullivan, Juve LWOP Case

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