Making sense of California's youth sentencing law
This summer, the California Supreme Court agreed and ruled unusually long sentences for juveniles unconstitutional. So what does this mean for juveniles being sentenced today, and those sentenced before them? With mandatory minimums for youth still in effect from Proposition 21, what is deemed "unusually long" nowadays? Youth Radio talks to an adult who spent time in California's youth penitentiary, and to lawyers on both sides of the debate about the fairness of piling on "enhancements" to put kids away for longer. First aired on KALW, read and listen to the story on Youth Radio.