Supreme Court Rules on Kids Sentences
The Supreme Court ruled that unless murder is involved, kids can not be sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole. The idea is not to make it possible for all offenders to get out of prison, but to give young offenders a chance down the road to show that they have changed through their time in jail and can now be a functioning member of society. In short it means to acknowledge that a person can change between the time when they are a child and the time they are an adult. However, the reason they came to this conclusion was not so much for that reason, but because the young man who came to them had been disproportionate to his crimes.