Team For Anti Oppress: ‘GROWING UP IN PRISON JUVENILES SERVING LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE’

Source:Team For Anti Oppress– with a look at life without parole for juveniles.

“Exerpt from: A short documentary about juveniles sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Original short documentary made by Josh Sahib and Sydney Prather. The University of Alabama: Documenting Justice, 2010.”

From Team For Anti Oppress

I get the idea of if you commit the crime, you should do the time, regardless of how old you were when you committed the crime. But we have adults who commit murder who get out of their crimes while they’re still alive. Adolescents simply don’t have the same rights, freedoms, and responsibilities, that adults have. So because of that they shouldn’t pay the same prices for their crimes that adults do.

If someone commits murder as a teenager, I’m all in favor of sentencing that person to 25 to life, 30 to life, 40 to life, and make that person have to go through all sorts of steps just before they’re even eligible for a parole hearing. Like taking personal responsibility for their crimes and being really sorry for their crimes. But just to throw that person’s life away with no hope of ever having freedom on the outside, seems almost as cruel as what the offender did to their victim or victims.