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In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom

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At Bolts Magazine, Phillip Vance Smith II introduces us to Joseph Jones, Sethy Seam, April Barber Scales, Leo Swain, and Jhalmar Medina. They were all incarcerated in North Carolina, sentenced to serve life in prison with no chance of parole for crimes they committed as children. While Seam and Scales have since been released, Jones, Swain, and Medina remain among the 100 people in North Carolina still incarcerated, decades later.Some of Joseph …
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Longreads broke the news in on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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