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How Do You Agree Or Disagree That Young Teens Should Be Sentenced Life In Prison
I personally disagree that young teens should be sentenced life in prison

without parole, because their teenage brains haven’t reach the maturity level like adults.

They will not have the help they need to become a changed man behind bars. No

whatsoever education will be provided for them once their incarcerated. Majority of the

Juveniles become violent,because of the environment they live in. That why experts

Disagree on these statement as well.

Over the past years researchers have study that teens don’t have the

Same mind as adult. Meaning that the brain is like a puzzle and over the years the

puzzle will be completed once they reach that age of maturity. However in order
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always some type of cruelty amongst the couple around the kids supervision,

sometimes it was the kid that suffer the brutality or even it was something they watched

in the television. Like a fifthteen-year-old claimed of mimicking a T.V. show of two girls

robbing a bank. As you can see minors can develop quickly on what they see and hear

that why, because of these on June 25,2012 Justice Elena Kagan, stated that

‘’Mandatory life without parole for juveniles was breaking the Eighth Amendment ban on

cruel and unusual punishment’’. Which meant its not the teens fault for the immaturity,

and the impetuosity problems that were going around them during their aging. The

parents where the one held responsible to set an example to teach their child how to

grow up and live a healthy and respectful life, but sadly some parents failed to do so.

Therefore because of their failure teenagers grow up to become a massive danger

amongst others and themselves and end up killing someone. They have so

much anger,emotions and frustration going through their heads of the way their

parents or someone treated them and they want to apply these anger to

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