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Court says long sentences not equivalent to life without parole

The Missouri Supreme Court said Tuesday that lengthy consecutive prison sentences for juvenile offenders are not unconstitutional. In two cases involving inmates who committed crimes when they were teenagers, the court approved of sentences that add up to hundreds of years and that will likely leave the inmates unable to seek parole until they are in ...

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