You read it right, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_the_Unite...

Yes. And not only life sentences, but life sentences without the possibility of parole. For minors.

We are literally the only country that does it. It is a heinous and barbaric practice. And, like all of our mass incarceration system, is it vastly disproportionatly applied to Black children. We are a backwards country in many, many ways.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/juvenile-life...

We also executed juvenile offenders until 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_for_juvenil...