ICYMI: Review our latest
#clientstory on Jaylah and how her LCCR team assisted in building Jaylah's self-confidence as well as taking important steps to provide for her family using the
#linkinourbio.
Additionally, despite several
#SCOTUS cases since 2005 that have established that “children are constitutionally different from adults” due to extensive research and studies that show the brains of youth are still maturing, the US – 28 states and the District of Columbia have banned these type of sentences – is still the only country that sentences people to life without parole (
#LWOP) for harm they committed before the age of 18.
A child should not be defined by their worse mistake and imprisoned for the remainder of their lives when they possess the ability to grow, change, and be rehabilitated.