After juvenile life sentences were banned, a bill to make youth sentencing reforms retroactive stalled last session
By Ethan Holder
Cleodious "J.R." Schoffner Jr. sits in a visitor's room at Lawrence Correctional Center, a small, cinderblock box with a guard posted outside the heavy metal door. His lanky, 6-foot frame is swallowed by baggy prison blues, and a faded lotus flower tattoo – inked by a fellow inmate – peeks from his shirt...
