#then i found out the only 28 states have banned this practice - shockingly including my own.

[hylianengineer]

I have just been reminded that not all information exists online, even when it seems like obvious information that should be easily available. How frustrating.

Solution: ask a librarian.

#i fell down the rabbit hole of researching what life without parole means #then i foudn out that the us is the only country in the world currently imprisoning children for life without parole #then i found out the only 28 states have banned this practice - shockingly including my own. #i did not expect this level of decency from my local lawmakers #anyways what i can't find is WHEN or how or why my state banned this practice #and i am desperately curious #my university has a chat line to ask librarians questions and i have emailed them. with citations of the articles that tell me the ban exis #anyways librarians are great. the chat function is also great because i would never approach a librarian in person unless i was desperate #i am afraid of human interaction #this is the perfect example of how research rabbit holes work #actually even before the life without parole part i was actually researching serial killers. #and before that it was a specific family of serial killers. because my university anthropology department is doing archaeology about them #and emailed me a podcast about that research #and that is where the last 3 hours of my life went #hylian rambles #i still have not answered my initial question about life without parole