Juliet Linderman

This May file photo shows a hallway inside the Franklin Correctional Center in Bunn, N.C. A 2016 Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as minors has had a far greater effect: The ruling is prompting lawyers to apply its fundamental logic — that it’s cruel and unusual to lock teens up for life — to a larger population of prisoners: those whose sentences technically include a parole provision but who stand little chance of getting out. - Gerry Broome — The Associated Press

Supreme Court’s juvenile ‘lifer’ ban spurs wider review of cases

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

BALTIMORE >> A U.S. Supreme Court decision triggering new sentences for inmates serving mandatory life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles has had a far greater effect: The ruling...

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