In the documentary 15 to Life, Kenneth Young was 14 years old when the first crime happened, he attempted robbery and attempted robbery another 3 times. Kenneth was charged with 4 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for all robberies at age 14/15, while Jacque Bethea a 24-year-old man was tried and sentence to 1 concurrent life sentence; which is a lesser sentence than the juvenile. Kenneth was able to get a resentencing under Graham v Florida, which states that children are different from adults. Even though the offenders do everything possible to rehabilitated while in prison the court/judge doesn’t believe that is enough to resentence Kenneth.
The criminal justice system is acting very harshly when a minor is sentence
The criminal justice system is acting very harshly when a minor is sentence