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Connecticut Mulls Outlawing Juvenile Life Without Parole
Connecticut’s Sentencing Commission is currently evaluating a proposal that would outlaw juvenile sentences of 10 years or greater without parole opportunities, The CT Mirror reports. The proposal, if...
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Juveniles Serving Life Sentences Not Entitled to New Hearings
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. (MCT) Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled a U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared sentences of life without parole for juveniles unconstitutional cannot...
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Appeal Likely in Juvenile Lifer Ruling
Ruhrfisch / WikipediaFive of seven judges seats in the Supreme Court chamber in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. From The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (MCT) Joseph Aulisio killed...
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Sparing Children from Life in Prison without Parole
West Memphis Police Department via CBS News / WikipediaWest Memphis Police Department mug shots of the "West Memphis Three" WASHINGTON – Jason Baldwin hopes to spare others from growing up, growing old...
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Michigan Attorney General to Appeal Order Giving Juvenile Lifers Chance for...
Aaronjbaylis / WikipediaMichigan Attorney General Bill Schuette delivers his address at his inauguration on the steps of the Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on January 1, 2011 Michigan’s attorney general...
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OP-ED: Reflections on Miller v. Alabama: Roses, Thorns and Buds
To generate some (hopefully) meaningful conversation around our dinner table, I have begun to use a tool that my daughters picked up at one of their summer camps: “Rose, thorn and bud.” We each...
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Former Inmate, Advocates and Attorneys Honored for Work to Reform Sentencing
Sharletta C. Evans (right) with Joanne Lewis, the mother of one of the killers of her son. After Joanne asked Sharletta to forgive her for her son’s actions, the two became close friends and now speak...
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We Can Hold Youths Accountable Without Life Without Parole
When I was 17, I accepted a plea agreement and 25-year prison sentence to avoid the likelihood of spending the rest of my life in prison. I had been involved in the death of another person. Prosecutors...
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JLWOP Ruling in D.C. Sniper’s Case Could Clear Way for More Juvenile...
A federal appeals court’s ruling in the case of Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo could speed the resentencings of people serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed as teens in...
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The Marshall Project When 15-year-old Luis Cruz joined the Latin Kings in 1991, he was a child by almost any measure: He couldn’t legally drive, drop out of school or buy a beer. But was he still a...
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