Youth Life Without Parole Debated By Colorado Lawmakers

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s district attorneys are opposing a Senate bill to bring the state in line with U.S. Supreme Court rulings that life without parole sentences for youth offenders are unconstitutional.
Colorado ended the no-parole sentencing practice in 2006. But about 50 inmates in state prisons are serving life without parole for first-degree murder and other crimes they committed as youth between 1990 and 2006 — an era that saw violent crime spike, and corresponding tou