United States: When I Die, They'll Send Me Home: Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 08, 2008
ANNOTATION: Results from a study on the sentencing of juvenile offenders to life without parole in California are analyzed. Sections following an executive summary are: methodology; recommendations; teenagers sentenced to die in California prisons; why youth are serving life without parole in California; unjust results -- one of which is that many youth sentenced did not actually kill; the late teens and early twenties -- a dramatic period for personal growth; life inside prison; financial cost of sentencing youth to life without parole; the perspectives of victims; and what those serving life without parole want to say to the families of their victims.