he United States, a country that holds one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.

Continues to face intense scrutiny over aspects of its criminal justice system that many observers consider deeply troubling.

Among the most controversial realities is the sentencing of children to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, a punishment that effectively condemns a person to spend the rest of their life behind bars, regardless of rehabilitation or personal growth.

According to long-standing research and reports published by organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), at least 79 individuals who were younger than 14 years old at the time of their offenses have received life-without-parole sentences in the United States.

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