Teens with life sentences
California is second behind Pennsylvania for having the second highest number of juveniles sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, the Los Angeles Times reports.
California currently has 227 inmates serving such sentences for crimes committed before they turned 18; Pennsylvania has 433, according to a new study by the University of San Francisco's Center for Law and Global Justice.
It is a waste of human potential to have such young people locked away from society for life. However, they obviously committed very serious crimes against that same society and that caused them to be banished. Before we start to wax PC about the injustice waged against these youths by the "system", let's stop a moment and give some thought about the injustice that would be heaped upon the victims of their crimes if they were released.