Prairie Region News
(2008-06-30)
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SEATTLE, WA
(KPLU) -
It's been ten years (May 1998) since Kip Kinkel shot and killed his parents and then opened fire at his school in Springfield, Oregon. Currently, Kinkel is serving a 111-year sentence. He is one of at least 60 juvenile murderers serving life sentences in Northwest prisons. Some - like Kinkel - will probably die in prison. Others have a chance at parole. But is it good public policy to prosecute juveniles as adults and sentence them to life? In part one of a two part series, KPLU's Austin Jenkins takes us behind bars in search of some answers.
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