States where juveniles are serving life terms without parole, including for nonfatal crimes
By APSaturday, November 7, 2009
States where juveniles serve life terms
d0Distribution, by state, of juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole, and the number of juvenile offenders serving such sentences for crimes in which no one was killed:
| State | Life | Life-nonfatal | crimes |
| Ala. | 62 | 0 | |
| Ariz. | 32 | 0 | |
| Ark. | 73 | 0 | |
| Calif. | 250 | 4 | |
| Colo. | 48 | 0 | |
| Conn. | 9 | 0 | |
| Del. | 7 | 1 | |
| Fla. | 266 | 77 | |
| Ga. | 8 | 0 | |
| Hawaii | 4 | 0 | |
| Idaho | 4 | 0 | |
| Ill. | 103 | 0 | |
| Ind. | 2 | 0 | |
| Iowa | 44 | 6 | |
| Ky. | 5 | 0 | |
| La. | 335 | 17 | |
| Md. | 13 | 0 | |
| Mass. | 57 | 0 | |
| Mich. | 346 | 0 | |
| Minn. | 2 | 0 | |
| Miss. | 24 | 2 | |
| Mo. | 116 | 0 | |
| Mont. | 1 | 0 | |
| Neb. | 24 | 1 | |
| Nev. | 16 | 0 | |
| N.H. | 3 | 0 | |
| N.C. | 44 | 0 | |
| N.D. | 1 | 0 | |
| Ohio | 2 | 0 | |
| Okla. | 48 | 0 | |
| Pa. | 444 | 0 | |
| R.I. | 2 | 0 | |
| S.C. | 26 | 1 | |
| S.D. | 9 | 0 | |
| Tenn. | 4 | 0 | |
| Texas | 4 | 0 | |
| Utah | 1 | 0 | |
| Va. | 48 | 0 | |
| Wash. | 28 | 0 | |
| Wis. | 16 | 0 | |
| Wyo. | 6 | 0 | |
| Federal Prisons | 37 | 0 |
Source: Human Rights Watch; Paolo G. Annino, David W. Rasmussen and Chelsea Boehme Rice from Florida State University.
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