"On Aug. 29, Governor Newsom announced that he had commuted the sentences for five people serving life without parole for murder. The oldest of them was 28 at the time of his crime, and the others were 18, 21, 23, and 25. In California, that puts the younger four of them in the category of youthful offenders, distinguished from adults by not yet having reached full development of key areas of the brain."
"Governor Newsom's office mentioned the adverse childhood experiences of one of the men, noting that traumatic events can affect a person's physical and mental health. Adverse childhood experiences (commonly referred to by the shorthand ACEs) include physical, sexual, and emotional child abuse; physical and emotional neglect; substance abuse, mental illness, or incarceration of a household member; parental separation, and domestic violence."
Five people serving life without parole had sentences commuted, four of whom were youthful offenders aged 18–25 and not yet fully neurologically developed. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; neglect; household substance abuse, mental illness, or incarceration; parental separation; and domestic violence. The early lives of twenty individuals examined showed ACEs far above average. The original ACEs study of 9,508 primarily white, middle-class Kaiser Permanente patients found half reported at least one ACE and one quarter reported more than two. Subsequent, more diverse studies show ACEs are common and strongly affect adult emotional and physical health and stress-response systems.
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