Life In Prison

Punishment by life in prison is based off the assumption that certain convicts has no hope of rehabilitating into productive members of society, making them better off excluded from the general public. As a result, our government spends million of dollars annually to keep such people behind bars for their lives. Yet, despite being perceived as an inhumane form of punishment, it does not violate the 18th amendment and is in no way cruel and unusual according to our laws and it seems that our justice system has no tolerance for those who commit such heinous crimes.. However, with the Supreme Court case that ruled that Juveniles could not be sentenced to life in prison despite committing crimes such as murder or grand theft on a massive scale.
There’s no doubt of how naive the younger generations can be Children perception of reality dramatically changes throughout their earlier years, as they are still stuck in the own little fantasy world where they are not aware what’s real and what's fake, but more importantly what’s right and what's wrong. Now fourteen and convicted as an adult of first-degree murder, Lionel Tate committed such a heinous crime because he was stuck in his false reality of professional wrestling “Tate supposedly was imitating his world Wrestling Federation Heroes” (Lundstrom). Eventually they will learn that such things are wildly unacceptable in today's society and more so than wrong in the eyes of the law. And the same goes for teenagers as well as children, as in a teens brain the “frontal lobes which inhibit our violent passions, rash actions, and regulate our emotions are vastly immature throughout the teenage years” (Thompson). Even though these things have little to with criminology, it clearly shows that a juvenile's are undoubtedly not a fully grown up individuals that have far less compatibility when it comes to decision making and rational due to some factors that are controlled by their
general group of individuals because of their misjudgement due to their age. Because of this, sentencing them to life in prison is going against the eighteenth amendment and proves that the supreme court made the right decision to ban it. Of course this ruling should make juveniles free of all punishment whatsoever yet let them learn what they have from time in jail to transform into as better people, as this is only because they’re not yet fully developed adults yet.“No one’s talking about coddling here. But the zeal to corral wildly troubled, ever-younger kids and ram them throught the adult system belies everything the juvenile justice system is all about: that kids are different”