Sentenced to life without parole. Aged 16.

Jacqueline Montanez's childhood was one of physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Aged just 9 she was already taking drugs and drinking alcohol. By the time she was 15 Jacqueline had joined a gang and in May 1992, shortly before her 16th birthday, she and two other women shot and killed two members of a rival gang. Under a year later Jacqueline was tried in an adult court. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without even the possibility of parole. Jacqueline has already spent nearly half of her in prison, as she prepares to spend yet another birthday behind bars with no hope of freedom please show her your support.

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