from The Nation
In 1976, when Trina Garnett was 14 years old, she accidentally started a housefire that ended up killing two boys. Now, thirty-five years later, Trina is fifty years old and still in prison. Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life? The Nation‘s Liliana Segura explains.
Tags: imprisonment, incarceration, juvenile sentencing, legislation, Liliana Segura, mandatory sentencing, prison, U. S. Supreme Court
