Locking Up Children For Life

Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentencing 00 Children as young as 11 have been sentenced to life without the 2/3 of males and 3/4 of females in the juvenile justice system meet the criteria for one or more psychiatric disorders' possibility of parole? For 59%of JLWOP inmates, life without parole was their first-ever criminal Juveniles are 5x more likely to be sexually assaulted in adult facilities than in juvenile facilities conviction Over 2,500 individuals are currently serving life without parole Black youth receive life without parole sentences 10x more than white youth Only the United States and Somalia have failed to ratify the Convention sentences for crimes on the Rights of the Child which forbids juvenile life without parole sentences they committed as juveniles 1. http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/20668.pdf 2. . 3.http://www.eji.org/eji/files/20071017cruelandunusual.pdf 4. http://amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMRS1/162/2005/en/209dd2da-d4al-1ldd-8a23-d58a49c0d652/amr511622005en.pdf 5. http://amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMRS1/162/2005/en/209dd2da-d4al-1ldd-8a23-d58249c0d652/amr511622005en.pdf 6. http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/children-s-rights/convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child 7. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/whenkidsgetlife/etc/map.html 50 YEARS amnestyusa.org AMNESTY Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 3 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. Commemorating its 50th anniversary in 2011, the organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. INTERNATIONAL