Why is it called getting 'life imprisonment'?

I was watching the news recently and it was about two boys who are getting 'life' in prison.

But then it went on to say they were getting a minimum of 15-18 years (I think?)

Why do they call it 'life' if it's technically not you're whole life in...

prison?

no, when you get life prision it means your whole life. so maybe you jsut confused.
they probably said life in persion or a munimum of 15-18years in prision.
and what movie was it??

It wasn't a movie, it was on the news lol...

Im probably getting confused im thick lol.

But this is what it said

'Two get life for Goth murder
Reuters - Monday, April 28 05:43 pmLONDON (Reuters) - Two teenagers who kicked a woman to death in a park because she was dressed as a Goth were jailed for life on Monday, police said.

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Brendan Harris, 15, and Ryan Herbert, 16, kicked and punched Sophie Lancaster in what police described as a despicable, cowardly and totally unprovoked attack.

They set upon the 20-year-old gap year student when she tried to stop a group of youths from attacking her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, 21. The pair were left unconscious.

Lancaster's injuries were so bad that it was difficult at first to tell what sex she was, police said.

She fell into a coma and died two weeks after the attack. Her boyfriend was also left in a coma, but has since been discharged from hospital.

A jury at Preston Crown Court heard that the couple were attacked in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, last August, because they were wearing Goth clothing.

Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell said: Sophie and Rob were savagely and mercilessly attacked.

The attack was despicable, cowardly and totally unprovoked and it would appear that both were targeted, not for anything that they said or did, but because they looked and dressed differently to the defendants and their friends.

Harris must serve 18 years for murder and Herbert 16 years.'

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I don't know how it's done in your country but in most of the states in the U.S. the sentence might be like 15 years to life. That means that the person must serve at least 15 years before being eligible for parole. But parole doesn't have to be granted and the person could be kept in prison for life.
 

25-to life should be for robbing LIFE should be for murder no if ands about it they KILLED INNOCENT girl and almost killed the otherguy they should be sentanced to LIFE.you take a life you give yours!