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#69: Why We Don't Sentence Kids To Die Anymore
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:46:57
Publish Date: 2017-10-31 01:00:00
Description:

Since they began in the early 20th century, juvenile courts always treated kids differently – as people who were young enough to change. This began to change in the 1980s and 1990s when crime really spiked and we began putting some kids in adult courts and prisons – even giving life without parole and death penalties.

Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, explains what changed.

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