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Posted by Darcy Delaproser on October 21, 2011 at 8:13am

By Whitney Co-Cane
http://www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-roy-brown?share_id=OxfZOVosuD&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter via @change

Roy Brown, a 55-year-old black homeless man, was sentenced to 15 years in jail after stealing a $100 bill from the Capitol One Bank in Shreveport, Louisiana. The bank teller handed him three bill stacks, and Brown handed it all back, save a single hundred dollar bill, which he explained he needed to "stay at the detox center." Desperate and hung

Posted by Darcy Delaproser on October 6, 2011 at 6:00am

In 1992, the United States ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which requires that juvenile imprisonment focus on rehabilitation, but the U.S. reserved the right to sentence juveniles to life without parole in extreme cases involving the most hardened of criminals -- the worst of the worst.

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