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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
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?Panic over supposed 'super-predator' teens ended years ago, but its consequences did not.jabejon/iStock via Getty Images Plus

A 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...

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