While you do not get jail for life for selling crack to kids, or beating one up, by a strange quirk of the US Justice system, selling a game to a kid could get you locked up until you drop.
Lawmakers have decided that selling such games is now a serious crime, what over the pond they call a felony. Since New York has a three strikes rule, which was upheld in 2005, it means that if you commit three felonies, however important or not they are, you go to jail for life.
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