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Juvenile Life Without Parole: Turning a blind eye to justice

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Take ActionMerissa Kovach, Field Organizer


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Earlier this week, the Michigan House of Representatives hastily passed a bill that ignores U.S. Supreme Court rulings, abandoning over 360 men and women serving cruel and unusual sentences in Michigan.

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sentencing of children to mandatory life without parole is unconstitutional.

Yet Henry Hill, Barbara Hernandez and hundreds of others still sit behind bars for crimes they committed when they were too young to vote, buy a lottery ticket, or sit on the very jury that convicted them.

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