Juveniles Sentenced to Life Without Parole The idea of teens being charged as adults is a topic that is always debated on. There has been many court cases in which teens who have committed a crime have been sentenced as adults. Some of these cases then lead to the teen being charged to life in prison without parole. Do you think a teen should live the rest of his life without being able to get a second chance? Well I personally believe that depending on the certain circumstances the teen should not be charged to life without parole. These certain circumstances include the teens brain development and the teens environment he or she was raised in. These two factors is what determines if the teen should be charged as an adult and spend the life in prison without parole. Studies have shown that the human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of twenty-five. Since the human brain isn’t fully developed until the age of twenty-five, this shows how people who are younger than the age of twenty-five still have many things to learn until their brain is fully developed. It's said that your teen years are your most vulnerable years of your life. By vulnerable I mean you can be manipulated into doing things you don’t want to do and you don't have the capability to think twice before you do something, they let their emotions …show more content…
The mother of Jason Ind wasn’t the mother he deserved, even as a young infant he didn’t get the love and care he needed. “ Not only was she unhappy with her marriage, but also was unhappy being pregnant with her 2nd child, he (Jacob) was about 8 9 months old and we went in, she didn’t know I had followed her in their and she grabbed Jacob and goes “ I just hate you, I wish you have never been born.” ”. ( The best friend of Jason Ind mother.) With all