40 years ago, the US started sending more and more kids to prison without hope of release, but today, it's far more rare – what happened?
- Written by Julie Ellen McConnell, Professor of Law, University of Richmond
Panic over supposed 'super-predator' teens ended years ago, but its consequences did not.jabejon/iStock via Getty Images PlusA South Carolina judge heard arguments in late May 2023 to reconsider the sentence for Jesse Osborne, who carried out a school shooting in 2016. Fourteen years old at the time, Osborne killed his father, then opened fire at...