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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is interviewed by The Associated Press at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador, on July 27, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-John Hall walks in his neighborhood in Detroit on Friday, May 19, 2017. Hall, convicted of murder, was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 17 and freed at 67. Years passed with few visitors. He wanted to do his time, he says, without leaning on family for help. His mother made eight trips to see him before her death in 1983. But her words helped him keep going. "`As long as there's life, there's hope,'" she'd told him. "`You've got a chance.'" (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-John Hall stands outside his transitional home in Detroit on Friday, March 24, 2017. A half-century after he was convicted of murder at the age of 17, he still cringes when he remembers the judge's words at sentencing: "You're unfit, you're a throwaway, you're a predator and you should be put away for the rest of your life." "Everything was a blur and everything was moving so fast," Hall says. "But when I looked at my mother's face ... it was a look that I'd never seen before. It was a hurt look ... a helplessness." (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This combination of photos made available by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows a younger John Sam Hall and in October 2015. In January 1967, when he was 17, Hall and a friend saw Albert Hoffman at a bus stop in Detroit one night. They dragged him into an alley, then beat and robbed him of his watch and some money. The former Army sergeant who served in World War I, died of his injuries on his 73rd birthday. The friend was never arrested, but Hall was convicted of murder. (MDOC via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. walks in the park near his home in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, May 18, 2017. In September 1973, Rice and his friend ran toward Ola Danenberg, and Rice snatched her purse. As he took off down an alley, he says he looked back to see Danenberg fall to her knees. Two days later, hearing police were looking for him, Rice went to the police station and confessed to robbery. That's when detectives told him Danenberg had hit her head on the sidewalk and died. They charged him with murder. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. speaks during an interview in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, May 18, 2017. On Rice's first day in prison, an inmate he knew from home warned: "`You're a young kid. You're in here with some dangerous dudes.'" (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters, left,, accompanied by one of his attorneys, leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Walters, linked to golfer Phil Mickelson, was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters sit in his car as he leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Walters, linked to golfer Phil Mickelson, was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters, right, leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Walters, linked to golfer Phil Mickelson, was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Walters, linked to golfer Phil Mickelson, was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Las Vegas gambler William "Billy" Walters, right, accompanied by one of his attorneys, leaves Manhattan federal court, in New York, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Walters, linked to golfer Phil Mickelson, was sentenced to five years in prison for his conviction on insider trading charges.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2016, file photo, San Diego's Metro Arson Strike Team and SDPD homicide team gather evidence from the sidewalk and grassy area where a homeless person was attacked in downtown San Diego. Jon Guerrero, charged with killing three homeless men and an elderly woman in a series of San Diego attacks, was found mentally unfit to stand trial Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
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In this April 4, 2017 photo, Jon Guerrero, charged with killing three homeless men and an elderly woman in a series of San Diego attacks is escorted out of the courtroom in San Diego after his arraignment where he was ordered to be held without bail. Guerrero on Wednesday, July 26, was found mentally unfit to stand trial. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
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Unidentified members of a village council stand with a police officer, right, at a police station in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Police on Thursday arrested the head of a village council in central Pakistan for allegedly sanctioning the rape of a teenage girl, a police spokeswoman said, as Amnesty International demanded ban on such councils. (AP Photo/Arif Ali)
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2015, photo shows a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train, displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Supreme Court is set to issue a ruling that could have big implications for the state's $64 billion high-speed rail project. The court will decide Thursday, July 27, 2017, whether federal law exempts rail projects such as the planned bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco from the state's strict environmental review law known as CEQA. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2015, file photo, a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train is displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Supreme Court is set to issue a ruling that could have big implications for the state's $64 billion high-speed rail project. The court will decide Thursday, July 27, 2017, whether federal law exempts rail projects such as the planned bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco from the state's strict environmental review law known as CEQA. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This 2015 photo provided by Pearl Erata shows her and her nephew, Robert Howard, during a family visit to him in Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, La. Since his imprisonment at the age of 15, Howard studied law, pursuing clemency and commutation, and when the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory life without parole for juveniles was unconstitutional, he gained confidence. In January 2016, the Supreme Court said its earlier ruling was retroactive, forcing Louisiana and other states to begin reviewing the sentences of juvenile lifers. But not Howard, who died five months earlier. "We thought he was going to get out when the Supreme Court passed that first juvenile law," said his cousin, Maple Gaines. "His one wish was that he didn't want to die in prison." (Courtesy Pearl Erata via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This May 23, 1968 photo from the Louisiana State Penitentiary shows Robert Howard. Howard was working at a New Orleans restaurant in 1967 when he lent money to a cook who he said refused to repay it. The teen got his father's gun. When the man charged at him, Howard's second shot killed him. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole. After an escape, he was returned to prison, determined to find a legal way out. He chronicled his life in letters published by family and friends as a book. "I have always felt that youngsters only get one side of the coin when considering a life of crime," he wrote. "They see the fine cars and money, but they never envision what happens when they are caught." (Louisiana State Penitentiary via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Republican state Rep. Rebecca Petty walks on the floor of the House chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., to present her bill requiring that companies release the location of a cell phone when asked by police in criminal investigations. Petty considers herself tough on crime, but she also was a key mover of a ban to end juvenile life without parole in Arkansas in March 2017. It was a dramatic reversal for the second-term Republican. Petty comes to criminal justice reform from a painful perspective. Her 12-year-daughter, Andi, was raped and murdered in 1999. The killer, who was not a juvenile, is on death row now, and Petty remains a staunch supporter of the death penalty. But she changed her mind about tough sentencing for juveniles after reviewing scientific studies that show teens' brains are not yet fully developed. She also came to know a former gang member who was convicted of murder at 15, spent about 13 years in prison and turned his life around. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This combination of photos made available by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows a younger Damion Lavoial Todd and in August 2013. At 48, Damion Todd knows family and friends his age who are already looking ahead toward retirement. A judge recently resentenced Todd, making him eligible for parole next year after more than 30 years behind bars. At 17, Todd, co-captain of his football team and hoping for a college scholarship, was sentenced to life with no parole for fatally shooting a girl while spraying a crowd with gunfire. He and his friends were trying to scare some guys who'd shot at them after a party, he says. Instead, he killed Melody Rucker, 16, and injured her friend. In prison, he's taken college courses and mentored younger inmates. Expressing shame and regret, he says, "It doesn't excuse what I did, but I'm not that kind of person anymore." (MDOC via AP)
