Analysis Of The Article Juvenile Incarceration Rate

independent man. Greg was a new man and many people who helped him realized that and often tried to get Greg released early. This uncommon story shows how his life sentence gave him a chance to think and realize his mistake and try to better himself while being jailed. An opportunity that most inmates do not have. Greg’s story is one to be spreader around to show other juveniles that there always is a second chance, but you have to fight for it. With this in mind I think we should diminish life sentences that do not offer a chance of parole because everyone deserves a second chance, especially if they worked long and hard to get it like Greg did. With this influential story I am happy to say that juvenile crime rate has dropped. In†¦show more content†¦This is the goal we as citizens of America have in mind, a goal to create a better community by reaching out to young troubled juveniles because they are the future and the future sometimes needs to be worried about no w so later there is nothing to worry about. Which is why I am for life sentencing juveniles but to an extent, which is to make sure they understand that what they did was wrong and to make sure they get a second chance to fix their mistakes. To be able to learn from them and be able to avoid the same problem but, at the same time be able to experience life because they did learn from their mistakes, like a reward almost. I do realize that some murders are not premeditated, sometimes it is an accident or it just happened in the heat of the moment. For these particular situations I do believe a life sentence is not needed if the murder occurred in an accident because the killer did not have any intentions to kill just to hurt/injure. For example, in the article named â€Å"A Teenager is Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Unintentionally Shooting His Cousin. The Case Shouldn’t End There,† by Justin Peters it discusses a young teenage boy who killed his little co usin. The teenaged boy had a hand gun and thought it was not loaded and happened to kill his cousin his cousin. In fear he told the police his cousin was shot in a drive by, but later admitted he accidently killed his cousin. He was charged with involuntary