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For years, the Supreme Court debated the issue: Is it okay to put kids behind bars for life? In , it was ruled unconstitutional to give kids life sentences unless.
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• IFP welcomes life sentence handed to Pinetown dad who killed children
• Life sentences currently average around 18 years, with children detained in Oberstown
• Life Sentence TV Review

After the Supreme Court's decision, Torrance got his second chance at life. Robert "Saleem" Holbrook just wants the same chance. He was 16 years old when he served as a lookout for what he was told would be a drug deal.

The incident ended with a killing that he did not participate in or anticipate, yet he was convicted of second-degree murder. Since then, Saleem has written articles for newspapers, joined the Human Rights Coalition and written a survivor's manual to assist juveniles and their families in navigating juvenile life without parole. These are just two examples of the hundreds of people sentenced to life without parole in Pennsylvania.

There are thousands more like them across the U. The infuriating irony here is that the kids who have received life without parole sentences are, in many ways, the young people who needed our help the most. The irony here is the kids who have received life without parole sentences are the young people who needed our help the most. America failed them once.

Today, these kids deserve a second chance. Contrary to the super-predator rhetoric utilized by politicians in the past to justify locking up kids for life, adolescents really are different from adults — in almost every way. Their brains are underdeveloped, they struggle with judgment, they are susceptible to peer pressure. For too long, we have depicted our youth, especially our black youth, as fully developed adults who are a lost cause. But they can change. These are children. Studies show that even those accused of the most serious crimes age out of crime.

As a child, I was lucky to grow up in home with loving parents and dynamic and supportive mentors. My mom and dad were intensely involved in helping me achieve so many of my dreams.

I know that not everyone is as fortunate as I was. But everyone deserves to have the opportunity to live life as a free person, and to make something of themselves.

When we sentence kids to life behind bars, we deprive them of those opportunities. I believe that it is my duty to use my platform to raise awareness of the kinds of institutional injustices that so rarely make the news — and that we so rarely question. And I want to elevate the work that so many amazing community grassroots organizations are doing to try and bring about this change.

The judge said Dingledine couldn't see any way out, saying the young mother was in "despair" when she sought to kill herself and her children by driving her car into the Kansas River just north of downtown Lawrence near 6th and Massachusetts. District Attorney Charles Branson called the it a "tragedy. If not for the heroic actions of law enforcement officers to get the defendant and the infant from the water, we wouldn't be here today.

Life sentences currently average around 18 years, with children detained in Oberstown

Defense attorney Carol Kline said Dingledine is sorry for the pain she caused emergency workers who suffered while treating the two survivors. A psychological evaluation of Dingledine showed she suffers bipolar disorder, depression and suicide episodes, Kline told the judge before the defendant was sentenced. When she drove into the river at high speed, Dingledine wasn't using the medications she was prescribed, Kline said. Four other members in her family have struggled with mental health issues, Kline said, indicating a family trend.

At the time of the episode at the river, Kline said it is thought Dingledine was in the manic state of a bipolar episode. When she arrived in Lawrence, she was "running without a plan," Kline said. Dingledine had purchased diapers and an outfit for the infant, and she had played with her children in a couple of parks in Lawrence, her attorney said. She felt no ill will toward the children, Kline said. She loved her children, but she couldn't take care of them, she said.

When she was at the river's edge, Dingledine wanted to die, and she wanted to take the children with her, Kline said. After she drove the car into the water near 6th and Massachusetts, she tried to save the children,but she couldn't help them, Kline said. The mother and Elijah were pulled out of the water soon afterwards. The search for Amiyah lasted into the next day before dive teams recovered her body. Click Here to access the online Public Inspection File. Viewers with disabilities can get assistance accessing this station's FCC Public Inspection File by contacting the station with the information listed below.

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