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More youth offenders are getting parole these days, thanks to changes in the criminal justice system. But left out of the movement are young people serving life without parole terms. “At 18 years old, I committed a crime and was sentenced to life without possibility of parole,” said Sunny Nguyen, an inmate at Soledad State Prison in California. “I’m now going on 23 years. If they gave me 1,000 years-to-life, I would have gotten a second chance after serving 25 years (under SB 261), but because I was sentenced to life without parole, I … [Read more...] about LWOP – life without the possibility of parole