Last summer Copa Vida opened in Pasadena debuting its dream of serving "cup of life" coffee and tea service.
According to the Equal Justice Initiative, there are about 80 prisoners serving sentences of life without parole for murders committed when they were 14 or younger.
Today in Michigan, 2,572 inmates are serving sentences of life without parole, and they tend to cause fewer problems than the general prison population, Mr. Davis said.
The decision affected about 130 prisoners convicted of committing crimes like rape, armed robbery and kidnapping before they turned 18. Human rights groups say there are more than 2,000 juvenile offenders serving sentences of life without parole.
There are, according to a brief filed in the cases by human rights groups and foreign bar associations, more than 2,500 juvenile offenders in the United States serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole, mostly for murder.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla .-- There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed.
According to court papers and a report from the Equal Justice Initiative, which now represents Mr. Sullivan, only eight people in the world are serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed when they were 13.
