I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of the public radio website transom.org, and a continuation of our series on juvenile lifers.

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On the last episode of the frontline dispatch,

you heard a life sentence, victims, offenders, justice justice and my mother from producers

Samantha Brown and Jay Allison. If you haven't heard it it's worth going back and

listening to that first. It's about a violent crime Samantha's mother survived

and how testimony Samantha gave in the aftermath

made it increasingly hard for lifers

to be released from prison in Pennsylvania.

But a series of recent Supreme Court rulings

may change that.

The US Supreme Court has offered a chance of release

to about 2,000 prisoners.

Today, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that a life without parole sentence is always

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