{"id":3495,"date":"2012-05-10T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:04","slug":"how-mandatory-sentencing-laws-are-sending-juveniles-to-prison-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4PHK4Pvlb_0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a>&#8216;s Liliana Segura explains.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/167812\/throwaway-people-will-teens-sent-die-prison-get-second-chance\">&#8220;Throwaway People: Will Teens Sent to Die in Prison Get a Second Chance?&#8221; by Liliana Segura, The Nation, May 28, 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8216;s Liliana Segura explains. See also: &#8220;Throwaway People: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[989,988,987,10,990,985,541,880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}