life without parole

The Michigan Supreme Court ruling allows judges to add restitution when they're resentencing people who were initially sentenced to life without parole.

The state Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in cases that could lead to a ban on no-parole life prison sentences for people who were 19-20 years old when they involved in a major crime such as murder.

The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that inmates serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed as 18-year-olds are entitled to resentencing hearings.

The Oxford High School student who shot and killed four of his classmates was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Hundreds of people sentenced to life without parole as juveniles have now been released. In most cases, they’ve gone on to live completely ordinary lives that they had no reason to believe were possible for them.

In early October, Warren-Gibbs traveled to Lansing to support legislation that would outlaw life-without-parole sentences for people younger than 19 in Michigan. It appears unlikely the bills will get a vote before lawmakers adjourn for the year. But Warren-Gibbs said it’s the job of adults to protect children.

The ethics of juvenile life-without-parole sentences, a signing at Dearborn’s Green Brain Comics for the Spanish language edition of the graphic novel Frizzy, and a new biography about the life and influence of Michigan’s own, Madonna.

Oxford School shooter could serve life without parole, the Moth story slam does porch pop-ups, a great Detroit Tiger player with a bad legacy, sheep helping solar fields and a conversation with a Southwest Detroit muralist.

A breakdown of the legal standards of sentencing a juvenile to life without a chance of parole in the Oxford High School shooter's hearing, and a Detroit artist who reshaped hip hop.

The United States Supreme Court has said life without parole should be reserved for “the rare juvenile offender whose crime reflects irreparable corruption" and set standards to determine when it's an appropriate sentence. A hearing this week will determine if Ethan Crumbley should be one of those rare cases.