America's child prisoners

Life without hope:

In the US, there are 2,270 prisoners who were sentenced as children to life without parole. They will die behind bars.
The US is among a tiny minority of countries (Somalia is another) that have refused to sign up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that expressly forbids the practice. According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, only three other countries - Israel, South Africa and Tanzania - mete out the sentence and they have collectively just 12 prisoners serving it.