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  • Essay / When Children Have Life - 1023

    Being charged with adult sentences is a very harsh punishment considering their age. Andrew Medina was fifteen years old when he was sentenced to life without parole for a murder he may not have committed. The police also claimed he was part of a gang and sent him to spend the rest of his life in a strict prison. Trevor Jones was also sentenced to life without parole at the age of seventeen for manslaughter. Although it was an accident, the victim's death occurred while Trevor intended to commit an armed robbery and was charged with murder and will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jacob Ind was sentenced to life without parole. At the age of fifteen, he killed his mother and stepfather to put an end to the abuse of all kinds that they subjected him to. The jury did not recognize that it was primarily self-defense and charged him with first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. This is the case of only three children who were sentenced to life without parole, but there are many more. These children miss out on so much in life because they will spend most of their lives locked in a cell. An accident or mistake can ruin their lives forever. This is why I think juveniles should be tried in juvenile prisons.