More than 55,000 people in the u. s.

Behind bars, they are largely unseen and.

A court ruling tuesday will change that.

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Are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to research from the sentencing project.

They committed their crimes before they were old enough to vote.

— terrance graham's 2010 case won inmates around the country their freedom.

More than 12 years after receiving a life sentence, graham is the first of his brothers to earn his high school diploma, and he did it behind bars.

But unbeknownst to him back then, his case — and the very tenet of liberty — would form the basis of a fundamental question the justice system will now be asked to answer.

She had a full life ahead.

But he stayed behind bars.

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