Jones Marks Shift In High Court's Juvenile Justice Rulings By Jack Karp | May 2, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that juveniles convicted of murder can be sentenced to life in prison without parole without being found "permanently incorrigible" is a marked reversal for the justices, who had been limiting harsher penalties for minors in recent years, attorneys say. held that a judge doesn't have to separately find that someone convicted of a murder they committed before they were 18 is "permanently incorrigible" before sending them to prison for life with no c...