Should Kids Be Sentenced To Life In Prison

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In my opinion i think that kids shouldn't be sentenced to life in prison, because they are yet developing and understanding the world as its known. In other cases kids are trapped into a society where everything they do its cool. Kids shouldn't be in these kind of problems because they have not yet known the world but doing life for they have no chance on living again. Therefore people have spent more than million of dollars to set this kids free because of their age but the victims families have not yet been supported. We are not the only country sentencing kids life in prison which there are farther thing that we yet not might know. In conclusion i feel that kids should have to deal with their consequences and we can't always look at them

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