How Does Your State Measure Up?

Child Life Without Parole

Click on the map below to find out how your state measures up.

Source: Data provided from 38 state correctional departments, the National Center for Juvenile Justice and additional other sources for the states of Alabama and Virginia.

* AK, NM, KS, WV, ME do not have the sentence of life without parole (for anyone, adult or child). OR, KY, NY do not sentence children to life without parole. Data missing for ID. TX recently changed its laws to allow for the sentence of juvenile LWOP (too late for this report).