The scholarly event I attended focused on Life Sentences for Minor in the justice system. There was a panel of five men who each had a different stand point of the justice system and how minors should be tried in the court of law. Rodney Roberts went more of the philosophical way, making me realize that life without parole is a ridiculous punishment for a minor and the decision to incarcerate someone that long cannot be justified by their moral standard. Jon Sorensen had many statistics that I found interesting such as the rate of incarceration remained stable until imprisonment then the rehabilitation era from the 1920s-1970s. His stand point was to hold them for a certain amount of time for retribution but then to proceed to let the minors
