Giving a juvenile life without parole may or may not be unconstitutional, but it's certainly stupid. Keeping a sex offender who has served his term in prison indefinitely because of the crimes he might commit may not be stupid, but it certainly ought to be unconstitutional.
Megan McArdle is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.
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