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...solitary confinement, awaiting an April 29 court hearing into the Jonesboro massacre. For now, though, Gretchen is thinking about smaller matters. Her son is "thin, sallow and dehydrated, with very dry, cracked lips," she says. "I begged him to drink." But Mitch, she says, is not taken with the prison's beverage selection: tap water, milk and, on a good day, Kool-Aid. He is terrified and confused, she says, able to provide few clues to his mother to explain the horror that he and Drew Golden are accused of inflicting on the Arkansas community. Last week Jonesboro was still...
Time is not our enemy. It is a tool to set us straight, to give us a frame for our lives, to place ourselves on common footing with everyone else. The next time we look at a clock, we should remember that it isn't guard in our personal prison--it's friendly face telling us that yes, there is a standard, and no, we are not alone. As you readjust to Daylight Savings Time, remember: You're the one telling time. Don't ever let time tell...
Under state law, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Golden, 11, will not face the death penalty. They will not spend the rest of their lives in prison. In fact, if convicted of killing five and injuring 10, they are likely be out of prison at age 18. In Arkansas children under 14 cannot be tried as adults, and juveniles face a maximum sentence described by state law as "indeterminate," which means not to exceed their 21st birthday. And, says Gerry Glynn, law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "most children are released at age 18 because the state...
...many states, though, age is no barrier to punishment. Twenty-seven do not have age restrictions in prosecuting juveniles as adults (see chart). On Friday the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a department of corrections decision to house Donna Ratliff in an adult prison. At 14 she burned down her parents' house as retribution for alleged sexual abuse by "family members since the age of four." In 1996 a judge had recommended that Donna be sent to a juvenile facility...
...concrete." Florida passed the first CAP law in 1989, and 14 other states have enacted similar legislation (see map). CAP laws are pending in Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Missouri and South Carolina. In Connecticut, California and Florida, violation is a felony. In Florida adults can face five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if a minor obtains a firearm and uses it to inflict injury or death...