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Can Juveniles Serving Life in Prison Get Parole?

Can Juveniles Serving Life in Prison Get Parole? In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional for a law to impose a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole upon a juvenile offender. In Miller v. Alabama, the court ruled that such laws violate the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.1 At the time of the case, the court left it an…

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