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What a Long Sentence Really Means
When people read “50 years” or “58 years,” it can be difficult to visualize what that actually represents.
For a teenager, decades are almost impossible to comprehend.
Fifty years is longer than many people’s entire working lives.
It can encompass multiple generations.
Psychology
A person sentenced at 14 could potentially remain incarcerated through much of adulthood and into old age.
That doesn’t mean a long sentence is automatically unjustified.
The severity of the offense matters.
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