A 12-year-old boy was told he would die behind bars. No second chances. No future. Just a number in a system that never saw a child, only a criminal. Across the U.S., dozens of kids under 14 face the same fate—buried alive in prison by law. Their stories are scarred by poverty, abuse, and neglect, yet the punishment is permanent. As courts slowly shift and advocates fight back, families wait in fear, wondering whose sentence will be overturned—and whose childhood will be officially erased by a single, unforgiving judg… Continues…