Over 40 of the children currently behind bars in Colorado have no hope of ever being released. They were sentenced, while still under 18, to life without parole - in violation of international human rights law.

The rest of society doesn't realize that we've changed the laws in this country, so that there is no other country that matches it in terms of what we do to our juveniles. None. Zero. In the world.

Prison Kids

"A 14-year-old schoolboy is currently being questioned about allegations he found schoolgirl prostitutes for an accused pedophile teacher, police said Sunday... Among those he is alleged to have pimped for include 44-year-old former junior high school teacher Hiroyasu Nagai, who is currently standing trial for purportedly breaking the law banning child prostitution."

14-Year-Old Pimps Out Classmates to his Teacher

"[Former high school teacher and football coach] James Michael Carr, 38, of Conneautville, pleaded guilty yesterday to corruption of minors... Authorities said Carr offered the teens - now 18 and 14 years old - marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines earlier this year at a motel and in his home. Police said Carr asked one of the girls to smoke marijuana with him topless and to dress up in a French maid outfit to clean his house."

Ex-teacher Admits Misdeeds With Teens

Mexico's legal system recognizes that all people have a fundamental desire to be free. And it does not punish them for pursuing it, as some inmates recently did by disguising themselves as female visitors and tunneling to freedom using a sardine can as a shovel... "The person who tries to escape is seeking liberty, and that is deeply respected in the law," Juventino Victor Castro y Castro, a Supreme Court justice, said in an interview. "The basic desire for freedom is implicit inside every man, so trying to escape cannot be considered a crime.

Escaping Prison is LEGAL in Mexico