Inmate who was key to juvenile life debate is up for parole

By REBECCA SANTANA
Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Across the United States in recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free. That’s due to Supreme Court rulings that young people are capable of change and should be given a second chance. But so far the man whose case has been central to this change remains behind bars nearly six decades after his 1963 arrest for killing a sheriff’s deputy. That may change Wednesday when a Louisiana parole board votes for the third time whether to free 75-year-old Henry Montgomery.