14 is just too young. I can't accept throwing away the key on children

[KitSileya]

138. Anders Behring Breivik will most likely be locked away for life.

Just because he only got a 21 year prison sentence, doesn't mean that he'll be released in 20 years. He was also sentenced to secure holding after his sentence is served. The main difference there is that the key won't be thrown away - he'll be re-examined every couple of years to see whether he is a danger to himself or others, and if he still is, he will be kept. The main difference is that we don't keep our prisoners like animals, or exploit them like cheap labor. We don't let prisoners rape other prisoners, and we don't lock them away in SHUs on flimsy pretexts.

I would much rather live in a civilized society where a 14-year old kid who rapes and murders a woman is considered mentally ill and is confined to a psychiatric hospital, most likely for life, than one where they throw him to a dehumanized prison population like that of Riker Island and the like.