juvenile offenders

State Attorney General Bill Schuette has not given up on trying to keep juvenile lifers behind bars.Next week, he plans to file to join a case before the…

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says hundreds of juveniles sentenced to life without parole for murder or complicity in a murder should not get…

There is some question on the reach of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down automatic life-without-parole sentences for…

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning struck down state laws that allow juveniles to be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. The ruling…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that life sentences without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders violates the Constitution's Eighth…

Teen offenders in Michigan are worse off than teens in other states.That's according to a new report from Michigan-based Second Chances 4 Youth and the…

Reporters were caught off base yesterday when they learned that Governor Rick Snyder was not in Lansing as they thought, but in Afghanistan, visiting the…

The University of Michigan Law School hosted a panel on life sentences for juveniles on Monday. In Michigan, a first-degree murder conviction results in…

Michigan has one of the country's highest numbers of "juvenile lifers"---prisoners sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for crimes…