“My country ’tis of thee…”
…sweet land of liberty…Where 2,000 juveniles — juveniles; people who are supposed to be stupid, so’s they can learn the difference — are serving life sentences without possibility of parole. This compares to 12: in the rest of the world combined.
…Of thee I sing.
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