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- 15 years of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth!
- BIG NEWS: Virginia bans life without parole for children!
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- CFSY at Juvenile Law Center 2024 Leadership Prize Ceremony
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- FAQs: A Bill to End the Practice of Juvenile Life Without Parole in Wisconsin (SB 862 / AB 856)
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- In the news: Court ruling brings opportunity for 250-plus people sentenced to life without parole at age 18
- In the news: Gulf South states among U.S. leaders for juvenile life without parole sentences, study shows
- Inaugural Freedom Celebration
- Maryland Bans JLWOP
- Members of Congress Join Advocacy Groups to Urge Passage of Bi-Partisan Legislation to Treat Children Like Children in the Federal Legal System During Youth Justice Action Month
- Michigan SB 119-23 & HB 4160-64
- Michigan SB 848-851 & HB 5941-5944 Summary
- Minnesota bans juvenile life without parole
- Montgomery v. Louisiana Six Years Later: Progress and Outliers
- New ‘HIRE ICAN!’ website connects employers with formerly incarcerated job seekers
- Opinion: Ending juvenile life without parole sentences to bring real justice to Wisconsin's children
- Racial Disparities in Youth Sentencing
- Redemption is not a partisan issue.
- Report: Unusual & Unequal
- Staff Opinion: Children with adult prison sentences can still make good
- Staff Opinion: Racial disparities stark in juvenile life without parole sentences
- This Black History Month, a Reminder: I Am Somebody!
- Watch: 15 years of successes made possible by you.
- What Does Miller vs. Alabama Mean To Me?
- White Paper: Criteria and Procedures for Meaningful Parole Review for People Sentenced as Youth
- Xavier McElrath-Bey in People Magazine
- Xavier McElrath-Bey named executive director of the CFSY
- Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency
- Washington State Supreme Court Rules Life Without Parole for Children Unconstitutional
- ICAN members, CFSY staff gather for self-care convening
- ICAN members, CFSY staff gather for self-care convening
- Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) introduces bill to end JLWOP in federal criminal justice system
- Interview with Clint Smith: Racial Injustice and Youth Sentencing
- OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE PASSES INHUMANE & UNCONSTITUTIONAL YOUTH SENTENCING BILL, COULD BECOME NATIONAL OUTLIER
- ICAN Profile: Kim Simmons
- Legal Highlights: Lengthy and 'de facto life' sentences for children
- JLWOP in the 2018 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
- From the Desk of the Director: Black History Month
- Two years after Montgomery, progress and work to be done
- California mother gets busy during Juvenile Justice Week of Faith and Healing
- Featured Story
- CFSY Honors Eric Holder, Lucy Lee Helm, Anita Colon, and Eric Alexander at Healing & Hope
- California becomes 20th state to abolish life-without-parole sentences for children
- Major Associated Press series on life without parole for youth
- New Washington D.C. law provides review opportunities!
- CFSY attends 100,000 Opportunities Initiative Opportunity Fair in Dallas
- North Dakota bans life-without-parole prison sentences for children
- District of Columbia Abolishes Life Without Parole for Children
- Conservative States Giving Juveniles a Second Chance
- Arkansas Abolishes Life Without Parole for Children!
- Xavier McElrath-Bey shares his story on air in Arkansas
- New hope of freedom for those given mandatory life sentences as juveniles
- In Memoriam
- Healing and Hope 2016
- Highlights of the 2016 Convening
- ICAN members demonstrate #nochildisbornbad in Healing and Hope video
- U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Map
- They Call Us Monsters Viewing at the Capitol
- CFSY joins Changing Minds Campaign kickoff at White House
- October is Youth Justice Awareness Month!
- October is Youth Justice Awareness Month
- Where in the world is CFSY?
- Years after they gave him his start, Xavier returns to Starbucks
- Healing & Hope 2016
- People told as youth that they would die in prison are coming home
- Three new staff members join the CFSY
- New CFSY's report highlights recent momentum for reform
- Crime victims overwhelmingly believe justice system relies too heavily on incarceration
- Former Senator Alan Simpson urges states to ban life without parole for children
- States that ban life without parole for children triple in five years
- Colorado Eliminates Life Without Parole
- Iowa Supreme Court Bans Life-Without-Parole Sentences for Children
- Ozomatli, Trouble Funk rock U Street's Lincoln Theatre at JusticeAid concert benefiting the CFSY
- Xavier McElrath-Bey shares his inspirational story on Undisclosed
- Make restorative justice services available to all victims, says mother of woman killed by teens
- Join us at JusticeAid!
- Utah bans life without parole for children
- South Dakota bans life without parole for children
- U.S. Supreme Court holds Miller retroactive, providing review opportunities for youth
- Supreme Court affirms Miller Retroactivity in 6-3 Montgomery v. Louisiana Decision
- Xavier McElrath-Bey receives inaugural ICAN award
- Jeanne Bishop a 2015 Healing & Hope Award recipient
- Chaudry a 2015 Healing & Hope Award recipient
- Andre Williams a 2015 Healing & Hope Award recipient
- Convening inspires and charts path forward
- Healing & Hope 2015
- Senate Judiciary Committee passes crime bill
- Proposed federal reform would end life sentences for children
- Pope Francis inspired mercy and justice before and after his visit
- Interfaith prayer vigil honors people serving, victims, families and Pope Francis
- Second Life
- Pope visits Knots Grotto made in his honor EARLIER: Song dedicated to now-famous grotto
- POPE FRANCIS' SPEECH TO PRISONERS AT CURRAN-FROMHOLD CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
- Patty Murray invites Gonzaga graduate to watch pontiff
- Practicing the art of forgiveness
- Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration
- Pope Francis on Prison: 'I, Too, Could Be Here'
- Public defender’s division challenges juvenile sentences
- Juvenile Justice System Failing Native Americans, Studies Show
- Sept. 20 interfaith prayer service in Philadelphia will honor Pope Francis, juvenile lifers, victims and families
- Which states ban life without parole for children?
- Pope Francis Honored As 'Abolitionist Of The Year'
- Killing Them Softly: The Juvenile Justice System Is Complicit in Lost Lives
- Youth Advocates Using Documentary to Sway Public Opinion on JLWOP
- Congressman Cardenas introduces resolution to end JLWOP
- Calif. Congressman Tony Cárdenas – Resolution: Stop Locking Kids In Cages to Die
- ‘Children Do Not Have the Same Capacity as Adults to Control Their Reactions.’
- A critical moment for our nation
- Criminal Justice Reforms Must Include Youth Behind Bars
- For troubled youths, veterans offer shoulders to lean on
- President Obama Takes On the Prison Crisis
- President Obama should call for ban on life without parole for kids
- President Obama at NAACP Convention: "Kids Are Different"
- How parole boards keep prisoners in the dark and behind bars
- Harsh prison sentences swell ranks of lifers and raise questions about fairness, study finds
- "Dying in a Concrete Garden of Life"
- History of Abuse Seen in Many Girls in Juvenile System
- Huffington Post reporter says MI, US prisons need more transparency
- Corresponding with people serving JLWOP provides "transformative" experience for volunteer
- Legislative session brings movement closer to eliminating JLWOP
- He Killed Her Daughter. She Forgave Him.
- Connecticut abolishes life without parole for children
- In New Haven, police chiefs from around the nation talk about juvenile justice
- Too many children serving life sentences in Pa.
- I’m Proof Kids Don’t Need Extreme Sentences to Pay Debt
- Javier Stauring learned that troubled youths 'weren't so different' from him
- What It's Like To Spend Father's Day In Prison
- 56 youthful offenders may get hearings after court ruling
- Jacqueline Sparks: Don't throw away key on young
- 60 Organizations Pen Open Letter to NY Governor and Legislature: Raise the Age Now
- States that ban JLWOP
- Paroled After Life Sentence For Juvenile Crime, Joe Donovan Works Towards His Release
- Kalief Browder’s suicide and the high cost of violence and delay at Rikers
- Kalief Browder, 1993–2015
- Watchdog: Advocate James Dold
- Juvenile Killer Barry Massey To Be Released in 2016
- Bringing Back Pell for Prisoners
- How Paula Cooper helped change the way we think about juvenile incarceration
- Nevada eliminates life without parole for youth!
- OP-ED: Looking Back on Five Years of Hope from the Graham Decision
- They’re Not ‘Thugs’ — They’re Our Children
- OP-ED: I Believe in Restorative Justice for My Child’s Killer
- Reform laws that send too many youths to adult prisons
- Bryan Stevenson
- John Legend launches campaign to end mass incarceration
- Juvenile Justice in America: We Can Do Better
- A Murderer at 14, Then a Lifer, Now a Man Pondering a Future
- Vermont eliminates life without parole for kids
- U.S. Supreme Court to hear Miller retroactivity case
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Florida Supreme Court orders new sentences in juvenile cases
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- OP-ED: New Guidelines for Juvenile Defense Attorneys 1 Step Forward for Young Defendants
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- Experts respond to the guidelines for representing youth facing life
- UN expert slams US as only nation to imprison kids for life without parole
- Don’t let kids rot behind bars: A life sentence for a teen is just wrong
- NETWORK, a Catholic advocacy organization for justice and peace, signs on as an official supporter
- Anti-Defamation League joins our growing movement as official supporter
- ABA calls for end to JLWOP
- ABA calls for end to life-without-parole sentences for kids
- What Happens at a Juvenile Lifer Hearing?
- Needed: Level Heads
- Unlikely Cause Unites the Left and the Right: Justice Reform
- Black teens who commit a few crimes go to jail as often as white teens who commit dozens
- Louisiana inmate in key case to be freed
- Throw the Book at Them
- US teenage lifers - children sentenced to jail forever
- UNLV event focuses on life-without-parole sentences for juveniles
- Gov. Cuomo Commish: New York State Should Raise the Age to 18
- Rikers to Ban Isolation for Inmates 21 and Younger
- Connecticut Should Give Young Offenders 'Second Look'
- Unforgivable: The Governor and the Teen-Ager
- Prosecuting preteens as adults defies logic
- Juvenile injustice: The ruling on mandatory life should be retroactive
- Juvenile injustice: The high court should make its ruling that abolished mandatory life sentences for juveniles retroactive
- Year after Obama-ordered prison release, ex-drug dealer finds career
- Repeal of mandatory life sentences for minors should be retroactive
- Voices: Convening was 'life-changing' experience
- James Bell and Bart Lubow encourage broad view of issues impacting sentencing
- A Shooter, His Victim and Race
- Supreme Court will hear case involving life sentences without parole for juveniles
- Convening culminates five years of successful work
- Letters to a Lifer tells of change that came from knowing a person serving JLWOP
- U.S. Supreme Court allows Illinois ruling that held Miller retroactive to stand
- South Carolina holds Miller retroactive
- Healing & Hope 2014
- New Nonprofit Will Aid Children in Adult Prisons
- Pope Francis, Criminal-Justice Reformer?
- How One Community Saved Its Troubled Youth
- Solitary Confinement to End for Youngest at Rikers Island
- 20 Years Later, Parts Of Major Crime Bill Viewed As Terrible Mistake
- OP-ED: Stop Sentencing Kids to Life Without Parole
- DNA Evidence Clears Two Men in 1983 Murder
- Pope Francis denounces life sentences and criminal penalties for children
- Wyoming holds Miller retroactive
- American Correctional Association opposes JLWOP
- New Hampshire rules Miller is retroactive
- Healing & Hope 2014
- Brutal Treatment of Black and Brown Youths Reflects Disregard for Their Lives
- Children often affected more by parental incarceration than divorce or death of a parent
- Charged as Adults, Children Are Abandoned When They Could Be Saved
- Parole Board releases 2nd man convicted of murder as juvenile
- Trauma in the trenches of gun-weary Chicago
- Juvenile injustice
- White House “Champions of Change” Program Honors Jesuit Father Greg Boyle
- Iowa Supreme Court rules against mandatory sentences
- National Association of Counties condemns JLWOP
- Voices: Holding hope despite disappointment
- Signs of hope and justice two years after Miller v. Alabama
- On juvenile lifer sentencing, will Massachusetts do the right thing?
- Locking children up forever is not the answer
- Edwin Desamour's rescue mission
- Incarcerated kids deserve a second chance
- Between hope and despair, waiting for meaningful implementation of Miller v. Alabama
- Pope’s words give inmates hope, say advocates for fair sentencing
- Lorenzo Montoya, convicted of murder at age 15, released after legal challenge
- 'Zero tolerance' policies need to be tamed
- What a weekend in prison taught me
- Juvenile Hall Mass: Reiterating the pope’s call for LWOP review
- No child is a superpredator
- Prison program turns inmates into intellectuals
- Something extraordinary is happening at Ironwood State Prison
- Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility: innovation, one program at a time
- Why are kids being tried in kangaroo courts?
- Open Society Foundations award fellowships to 14 criminal justice visionaries
- Momentum and challenges at second Miller anniversary
- Two years since Miller v. Alabama
- Pope responds to children sentenced to life without parole with call for "mercy, forgiveness and reconciliation"
- Florida legislature provides review opportunities for all children
- Hawaii legislature abolishes JLWOP
- Five stories of lives changed by extreme sentences for children -- Cindy's story
- Five stories of lives changed by extreme sentences for children -- Preston's story
- Five stories of lives changed by extreme youth sentences for children -- Xavier's story
- Five stories of lives changed by extreme sentences for children -- Ralph & Esi
- "No child is born bad," CFSY youth justice advocate Xavier McElrath-Bey says in TEDx talk
- West Virginia eliminates life without parole for children
- Illinois Supreme Court: Miller applies retroactively
- Texas rules that Miller is retroactive
- Ohio rules that Miller applies to discretionary sentences
- God Cries When We Sentence Youth to Die in Prison
- Juvenile Justice Month of Faith and Healing
- Why I didn't want my son's killer to spend his life in jail
- Nebraska holds Miller retroactive
- Sentenced young: The story of life without parole for juvenile offenders
- Young offenders and life sentences
- Jail time and violent juvenile offenders
- Juveniles facing lifelong terms despite rulings
- Locking up kids for life?
- Letter: Opposes life without parole for juveniles
- Mandatory life sentences for juveniles at issues before state high court
- Nebraska holds Miller retroactive
- Our view: A chance to be smart on crime
- Op-Ed: Growing up behind bars
- Stop charging kids as adults
- After 36 years in prison, this Philadelphian is using his second chance to help others stay out of trouble
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Gives Hope to Youths Sentenced to Die in Prison
- Just Kids (In Prison for Live)
- Two join campaign staff
- CFSY honors four for their work to end life without parole sentences for youth
- Defining new ways to hold kids accountable
- Michigan ruling a bright spot as litigators challenge JLWOP sentences
- Working together to repair the soul of our nation
- National Coalition Asks Americans to ‘Stand Up’ to JLWOP
- Lost justice in a lost life
- Michigan Attorney General to Appeal Order Giving Juvenile Lifers Chance for Parole
- Teen killers -- sentenced for up to life terms in San Quentin Prison
- A champion for justice
- Federal judge orders Michigan to implement parole process for children serving life sentences
- A reason for hope
- Proof that kids can -- and do -- change
- Sparing children from life in prison without parole
- A bid to keep youths out of adult prisons
- Kids can change!
- Lawsuit claims children suffer sexual, emotional abuse in Michigan prisons
- Children, even teenagers, do not belong in adult jails
- Fast Fact: Recognizing children as different
- US appeals court keeps alive resentencing hopes of 3 men doing life since they were juveniles
- Editorial: Failure to Act
- Writing Off Lives
- Justice Department pushes new thinking on kids and crime
- New York Times: End mandatory life sentences
- A court just for juveniles in N.Y.
- Jerry Brown OKs early parole hearings for juvenile offenders
- Making our case in the New York Times
- Iowa Supreme Court strikes down extreme sentences
- Gingrich, Nolan voice support for SB 260
- The light at the end of the tunnel
- People sentenced as children in Iowa to die in prison will have parole opportunities
- Editorial: Finally, an end to juvenile life without parole in Michigan
- CFSY director discusses Attorney General's "Smart on Crime" initiative in news story
- Men incarcerated in Maryland work to end gang violence
- CFSY board and staff transitions
- Luncheon brings together 'official supporters' to discuss ways to improve CFSY's work
- All Michigan children sentenced to life in prison are eligible for parole consideration, federal judge rules
- It's time to talk about the role of race in juvenile justice
- San Quentin Prisoners Learn to Find Peace and Power Through Personal Exploration
- Texas eliminates death-in-prison sentences for children
- Grieving for Trayvon All Over Again
- The light at the end of the tunnel
- Texas needs alternatives to prison terms for children
- Request from dying friend begins lawyer's human rights campaign for Michigan prisoners
- Delaware enacts sentence review process for youth
- Letter urges Justice Department to review processes
- New Official Supporter: National Partnership of Juvenile Services
- Gov. Heineman signs Nebraska juvenile justice bill
- Adolescent offenders should not be tried as adults
- Commentary: Loss as it relates to life without parole for youth
- Mothering the man charged as a teen in her son's death
- 'Shakespeare Saved My Life' Excerpt: Laura Bates's Tale Of How The Bard Helped A Solitary Confinement Prisoner
- 5 essential reasons to keep kids out of adult jails
- Recognizing Mothers
- Message from Jody Kent Lavy
- Film details former prosecutor's focus on fair sentencing for children as part of his faith
- Infographic: The Cost of Sentencing Children to Die in Prison
- Huffington Post Live: Rehab for teens who commit crimes
- Cornell law professors fight legal battle for South Carolina juvenile lifers
- From prison to juvenile justice lawyer
- Interview: Ending life imprisonment for youth
- Join us in engaging faith leaders during Juvenile Justice Week of Faith and Healing
- Talk with a faith leader during Juvenile Justice Week of Faith and Healing
- Victim's mother: Heed high court, give juvenile offenders shot at reform
- Wyoming abolishes life without parole for children
- Join us in promoting safe communities
- February 2013 Newsletter: Making Miller Meaningful in 2013
- 2013 Juvenile Justice Week of Faith and Healing to be observed March 4-10
- Making Miller meaningful in 2013
- NJDC releases new National Juvenile Defense Standards
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports end to life without parole for children
- Sending juveniles to prison for life is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
- Catholic Bishops call for end to life without parole for youth
- Video | Parents say forgiving their daughter's killer freed them
- APA signs on as official supporter
- Can forgiveness play a role in criminal justice?
- Why the Miller v. Alabama decision is Right
- Words from a youth serving life without parole
- "I donated to the CFSY in memory of my daughter"
- State court overturns 110 year sentence for teen gunman
- Bill would give juvenile lifers a second chance
- California Supreme Court Ruling in The People v. Rodrigo Caballero
- California: Chance for Youth Justice
- California makes strides in limiting extreme sentences for youth; Senate and Governor should act quickly to approve SB9
- Formerly incarcerated youth: Supreme Court right that kids are different
- VIDEO | Standing Together to End Death in Prison for Children
- Editorial: Children in Prison for Life
- CFSY issues statement on Supreme Court ruling in Jackson and Miller
- Equal Justice Initiative: U.S. Supreme Court Bans Mandatory Life-Without-Parole Sentences for Children Convicted of Homicide
- Juvenile Offenders Sentenced To Life Can Face Harsher Treatment Than Adults: Report
- New report: Racial inequity, other flaws contribute to Michigan's many juveniles lifers
- States Have Second Thoughts About Juveniles in Adult Court
- Finding redemption after 18 years
- Michigan Finally Eyeing Changes To Lawyers For Poor
- Life Without Parole at Issue
- Flakes seeks forgiveness, redemption, to mentor at-risk youth
- Editorial: Repeal Michigan's cruel juvenile lifer law
- Throwaway People: Will Teens Sent to Die in Prison Get a Second Chance?
- Judge delays sentence for Lansing teen Charles Lewis Jr. until age 21
- Appeals Court Overturns Local Juvenile Sentence; Says 80 Years Equals Life
- Locked up since 14, Adolfo Davis makes plea for clemency
- Prisoner released after 34 years of life sentence
- Locked up for life? Too cruel
- A judge, a teenage killer and a mother who forgives
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment for 14-Year-Olds
- Commentary: The Forgiven
- Is It Just Another Tuesday?
- Teens change, given a chance
- Too young for life without parole
- Giving jailed juveniles a second chance at life
- Selected coverage of the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama
- Juvenile Justice Week of Faith and Healing
- Fixing the time in youth crime: Long, harsh sentences not seen as way to rehabilitate
- Former JJPL Staff Member Kelly Orians Travels the World Promoting the End to JLWOP
- Juvenile lifer Anthony Jones may one day walk, but fate of others left unanswered
- A chance of parole for juveniles sentenced to life
- Re: No Remorse
- Louisiana grapples with juvenile crime decision by Supreme Court
- Juvenile offenders and lawmakers get another chance
- Change Juvenile No-Parole Law
- New Year's Resolution on Punishing Kids
- Bay State must relax youth punishments
- For my son, 18 years is too many
- Young have greater ability to reform
- Juvenile lifers should get a second chance
- US must stop jailing minors for life, says Amnesty
- Share our new video!
- New trials ordered for 4 in 1994 rape, murder
- Life without parole for young criminals -- it's too cruel
- Same crime, different outcomes: One twin killer leaves prison, the other stays and stays
- New review on youths’ punishment
- Why Michigan has more juvenile life sentences than almost any other state
- U.S. Supreme Court's new review on youths’ punishment
- Healing & Hope: A Celebration
- Herman thankful for forgiveness
- Beautiful Brains
- California: Uniting to End Life Without Parole for Youth
- Despite brother's murder, HSU student supports second chance for teen offenders
- Should juveniles go to prison for life?
- Accused boy faces juvenile trial
- Rebecca Weiker On the Need to Pass Crucial Juvenile Justice Reform in California
- Youth can change, grow & SB9 is modest reform
- Young people can change & Victim Support Redemption
- For juvenile lifers, a chance
- Second Chance at Life
- Statement by Jody Kent Lavy on the transfer of Jordan Brown to Juvenile Court
- Federal judge allows suit challenging MI life without parole sentences
- Committee Approves Bill To End Life Sentences For Youth
- In Louisiana, rights advocates push to reform the state's harsh sentencing laws
- Miranda and Juveniles
- Supreme Court Gives Juveniles Protection in Police Interrogations
- Juveniles with life terms could get second chance
- Abolishing Juvenile Life Without Parole in California
- Every Child Deserves a Second Chance
- Children Deserve Second Chances
- Pennsylvania locks away too many juveniles forever
- Brain development should be a factor
- One Year after Graham: Voices for Justice
- Michigan's juvenile crime laws need to be revisited
- Editorial: End the injustice of life-without-parole sentences for juveniles
- Thorough review of sentences needed
- US judge expects decision in 2-3 weeks on Mich. law barring parole for some juvenile offenders
- Should juveniles be able to receive parole, or should they serve a life sentence if convicted?
- Is sending juveniles to prison for life constitutional? Judge hears arguments
- ACLU: Saginaw man, sentenced to life as teen for brutal murder, should have chance for parole
- Juvenile Killers in Jail for Life Seek a Reprieve
- Suspects in ’69 Lowell killing led ordinary lives
- Prison reform advocates press states to shift money out of corrections system
- Fixing the Mistake With Young Offenders
- 'Lifers' sentenced as teens: Do they deserve a 2nd chance?
- Charles Dutton stars in "From Jail to Yale"
- This delivers the message that they're loved
- States change laws, send fewer juveniles to adult court
- Boy murder suspect Jordan Brown may get break
- Juvenile Incarceration and the Pains of Imprisonment
- More youth deserve the second chance Brown received
- Editorial: Bolder prison changes would save state millions
- York teen accused of killing law student seeks move to juvenile court
- Rights Group Blasts US Justice Over Racial Gap
- Letter 1/16: More ideas for prison reform
- Prison reform: A smart way for states to save money and lives
- Man who killed dad as teen receives long-sought break
- Seeking an end to teens doing life
- Judge allows convicted killer to appeal life sentence
- When juveniles face questioning
- Florida's Shame
- ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Life Without Parole For Michigan Juveniles
- Mo. high court is asked to end mandatory life sentences for young killers
- Should kids be sentenced to life in prison?
- Should we throw away the keys on juvenile lifers?
- Man involved in 1993 murder to get chance at parole
- Orlando law school wins $100,000 grant to help juveniles with illegal life prison sentences
- After 57 years behind bars, a juvenile lifer speaks
- Odgren loses bid for lower sentence
- Life without parole for 17-year old
- Teen's 84-year sentence overturned by court
- NOLA Youth Demand Change in Juvenile Justice
- Legislature should pass Fair Sentencing for Youth Act
- Life without parole for children?
- Juveniles with life but not parole
- Youth should be a factor
- New trial for teen sentenced to life without parole?
- Suffer the Little Children
- Teenage Wasteland
- Bar to legislature: End JLWOP
- What's the Matter with Kids Today
- The slow march to justice for children
- End of 'life without parole' for teens welcomed by advocates
- SCOTUS Says ... I Was Right
- Forgiving My Daughter's Killer
- Life Without Parole
- Kids are not adults! And trying them as adults is both inhumane and ineffective
- Youthful offenders deserve a second chance
- Young criminals, appropriate punishment
- Kids Do Criminal Things, But Prison for Life?
- Supreme Court ruling opens door for juvenile justice reform
- Let juvenile offenders have reason for hope
- Treating juvenile offenders differently
- Kids Incarcerated -- Forever?
- Measure of Decency
- Battle for a second chance leads to a landmark ruling
- Courts Limits Harsh Terms for Youths
- Major Supreme Court Ruling: Kids Who Didn't Kill Anyone Should Not Have to Die in Prison
- They're Just Kids
- Statement on the Supreme Court Decision in Graham v. Florida
- Incarcerated for Life at Age 15: Lessons From Efrén Paredes, Jr.
- Putting the judge back in juvenile justice
- What if your child were murdered?
- Fighting for Their Lives
- A Just Alternative
- Kids should never be tried as adults
- Statement on the Decertification Hearing of Jordan Brown
- Arguments begin on how to try boy accused of killing pregnant woman
- Life terms for teens are unjust, lawyer says
- States rethink 'adult time for adult crime'
- Children Are Not Too Old to Change
- When 'life' is cruel
- Studies show problems in system
- Two teens get 50 to life in drive-by shooting; advocates protest sentence
- Arrests Aren't Enough
- Jailing juveniles
- Teen felons need chance for parole
- Developmental Psychologist Says Teenagers Are Different
- Rethink life without parole for juvenile offenders
- Life for Children
- Should South Miami-Dade teen Dewayne Pinacle get life in prison for rape and robbery?
- Florida Stands Alone in Putting Away Juveniles
- Line Drawn in One Case Dissolves in Another
- Statement from Jody Kent on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Politicians Saved At All Costs
- Teenage 'lifers': Court should end no-parole terms for youths
- Juveniles and Justices
- America must join the civilized world on teen life sentences
- Somalia 'to ratify UN Child Pact'
- Juvenile Justice and Race: An Uphill Climb to the Bottom
- Second chances
- Juvenile act: Age should be a factor in setting life sentences
- The limits of juvenile sentencing
- San Jose Halloween attack renews debate on locking up juveniles for life
- America's Prison Spree Has Brutal Impact
- The Young and the Reckless
- HOT TOPIC: Harsh sentences for juveniles
- U.S. Commission to Assess Mandatory Sentences
- Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black
- Reconsider plight of juvenile 'lifers'
- Florida leads nation in locking up kids in adult jails
- Supreme Court Weighs Juvenile Life Sentences
- Cruel and Unusual
- Imprisoning a Child for Life
- Myths of get tough law
- Don’t give up on the Kids
- ‘Thug’ senator Alan Simpson condemns teen convicts’ life sentence
- Life without parole is not sentence for teens
- Justices will scrutinize life sentences for youth
- Justices will scrutinize life sentences for youths
- Should Juveniles Be Sent To Jail For Life?
- Should juveniles be sentenced to life in prison without parole?
- Second teen in Michigan found guilty of murder and sentenced to JLWOP
- Giving child offenders a chance
- Michigan 15 year old found guilty of felony murder, sentenced to LWOP
- A case against JLWOP: Good policy and good law
- A sentence too cruel for children
- Is life without parole justified?
- Clemency for these six prisoners could save millions and serve justice
- Supreme Court to take up constitutionality of JLWOP
- The long shadow of Willie Horton: Joe Donovan’s case for commutation
- Second Chances
- The kids are not alright
- Will judge impose life in Florida case? National experts watching
- The juvenile damned
- Florida a leader in putting kids in jail for life
- Teen sentenced to life without parole for death of St. Louis police officer
- The Supreme Court and juveniles: International comparisons
- While adolescents may reason as well as adults, their emotional maturity lags
- The Supreme Court begins session with new issues and a new face
- Former Republican Senator and Charles ‘Roc’ Dutton want to end JLWOP
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor taking active role
- Are life sentences for 13 year olds cruel and unusual punishment?
- Five Supreme Court cases to watch this term
- Sending children to prison for life
- Teen serving LWOP sentence in Colorado may get new trial
- Questions surround start of new Supreme Court term
- Major Supreme Court cases this term
- The Supreme Court returns
- Don’t throw away the key on all juvenile killers
- For the youngest killers, a glimmer of redemption
- Justice Sotomayor, veteran justices face cases on a cross, juveniles
- What is the age of responsibility? Laws send young people mixed messages
- Juvenile life without parole sentence too harsh report says
- Supreme Court to consider juvenile ‘lifers’
- Is a child still a child if he is also a felon?
- Jail wasted on juvenile offenders: study
- Mental Health America adopts policy opposing JLWOP
- Man serving life without parole, finds support from unlikely people
- Clemency ruling delayed for lifers in Pa. prison
- Editorial: Parole reform
- Salisbury Teen Gets Life Sentence for Murder
- Alvarado teen sentenced to life without parole for killing store clerk
- Review Florida's parole policies
- Some hope for Florida's juvenile offenders
- The Lost Juvies
- Detroit Public Radio: Deb LaBelle and others discuss juvenile prosecution
- Teens' life sentences likely began much earlier
- Giving up too soon on juveniles
- Florida Justice: Tough on Youths
- Basu: Dreamers & Doers series - Nun seeks to free youths destined to die in prison
- Mich. House committee hears testimony on bill to amend life-without-parole sentences for minors
- Interfaith group seeks second chance for youths sentenced to life
- Midlands Voices: There's nothing just about locking up juveniles for life
- Life Sentence for Juveniles? (Letter to the editor)
- Young People Sentenced to Die in Prison (Letter to the editor)
- Another Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Teens
- Court to review life sentences for young offenders
- Justices to hear appeals of lifers sentenced as teens
- Change the juvenile lifer law
- California's juvenile injustice system
- Teens locked up for life without a second chance
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