CFSY honors four for their work to end life without parole sentences for youth
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth honored two individuals and two organizations for their efforts to end the practice of sentencing children to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The awards were given during the campaign’s annual Healing & Hope Awards Reception.
This year’s honorees were:
Jason Baldwin, one of the three men known as the West Memphis 3. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole as a teenager and spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Participant Media, a film production company which collaborated with the CFSY in 2013 to produce several infographics and videos.
WilmerHale, an international law firm that partnered with the CFSY to ensure that people in Virginia serving life without the possibility of parole for crimes committed as children have legal representation.