It’s time to stop sending children to die behind bars | Bharat Malkani

Nearly 3,000 people are serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed when they were minors Across America, offenders under the age of 18 - who cannot be legally sentenced to death - are being sentenced instead to spend the rest of their lives behind bars. When it comes to child prisoners, though, life sentences are the moral and legal equivalent of the death penalty - yet their fate goes largely unnoticed. There arenearly 3,000 people who are serving sentences of life witho