Despite a sweeping federal consent decree for Orleans Parish Prison, youth advocates say the facility remains unsafe for inmates 17 and younger. The City Council has declared that the juvenile detention center is the best place for all those 17 and under, but that facility doesn’t have enough room.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that youth can’t be sentenced automatically to life in prison. But what should happen to the couple thousand inmates already serving such sentences? Tuesday, lawyers for Henry Montgomery argue that they should get parole hearings. An in-depth look at the crime and the man at the center of the case.