#lwop — Public Fediverse posts
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Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
Beyond Life Without Parole in the US: 2nd Chances Make Communities Stronger
New Website Shines a Light on Contributions of People Released -
IMPORTANT:
Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that brain science makes life without parole (LWOP) unconstitutional for 18-20 year old defendants.
Late adolescents in this age group are more similar to 16-17 year olds whose impulsiveness, insensitivity to consequences, risk-taking, susceptibility to peer influence, and capacity for rehabilitation and change combine to make #LWOP cruel or unusual.
About 150 people will now have a chance to earn parole.
Link follows:
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.
By Robert Saleem Holbrook, in: Truthout
#lwop #lifewithoutparole #prison #USA #humanrights #UN #lifesentences
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UN Human Rights Committee Calls for Moratorium on Life Without Parole in U.S.
On Oct17-18, in Geneva, a coalition of groups fighting death by incarceration joined more than 140 representatives of U.S. civil society organizations and directly impacted people in petitioning the U.N. to hold the U.S. government accountable. The groups addressed the U.S. policy and practice of death by incarceration, which they said violates
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When News Outlets Fabricate Stories
SB 94 would simply allow judges to consider mitigating circumstances that are important to courts today, but were not thought of three decades ago.
By Devin D. Williamshttps://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/when-news-outlets-fabricate-stories
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When News Outlets Fabricate Stories
SB 94 would simply allow judges to consider mitigating circumstances that are important to courts today, but were not thought of three decades ago.
By Devin D. Williamshttps://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/when-news-outlets-fabricate-stories
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Death by Incarceration Is Torture
In 2020, 15% of the total prison population, or 203,865 people, were serving life or virtual life sentences
The United States’ extreme prison sentencing policies and practices, including life without parole, life with parole, “virtual life,” and other sentences that exceed life expectancy and thus effectively condemn individuals to death by incarceration, violate ... Read more here: https://www.deathbyincarcerationistorture.com/
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Cordell: Allow judges to reconsider life without parole sentences
Retired Santa Clara County Judge LaDoris Cordell is advocating that California should support SB 94, which would allow judges to reconsider life without parole sentences imposed in the 1970s and 1980s for inmates in prisons......there are incarcerated individuals who are completely rehabilitated but continue to be warehoused in our prisons for decades and counting. Why?
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The savagery of Life Without Parole (LWOP) sentencing
"What specifically has been problematic about my situation is that I did not commit the crime that I am imprisoned for. I was not convicted for killing the victim..."
https://zaharibu.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/the-savagery-of-life-without-parole-lwop-sentencing/
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These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives
A new report highlights the experiences those sentenced to death by incarceration in Pennsylvania’s women’s prisons.
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@D_J_Nathanson the Boston Globe found that there have been incarcerated to free person donations, though not for 2 decades. And González defensively points out such donation is not illegal.
I wonder if one family had a problem and this whole bad bill is meant to help them. Let's focus energy on things like ending #LWOP in #massachusetts #mapoli
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Project invites the public to sit face-to-face with men serving life sentences
KALW: Nearly 5,000 people are sentenced to die in Louisiana prisons without any possibility of parole.
The Visiting Room Project is the largest collection of first person testimonials ever gathered from people serving this sentence. We’ll speak with two participants of the project who were recently freed and find out what it’s like to re-enter the world after decades ...
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"There’s this fight that the way to abolish the death penalty is to commute everybody to life without parole. And I just can’t get behind that. That’s still physical, social, and civic death.
“But at least they’re alive … ”
That to me is an absolute perfect example of a reformist reform, which actually makes it less likely that we’re going to get people out of jail and prisons."
- #MariameKaba 'We Do This 'Til We Free Us' https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
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Oregon Governor, Kate Brown, is commuting the sentences of individuals on death row and dismantling the state execution chamber in an effort to effectively end capital punishment in the state.
Brown said: "Justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people."
I agree. But what sort of justice is life in prison without the possibility of parole?
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The savagery of Life Without Parole (#LWOP) sentencing
What specifically has been problematic about my situation is that I did not commit the crime that I am imprisoned for. I was not convicted for killing the victim in this case. I was acquitted on the charge that I personally used a weapon in the commission of the crime. Nothing at all has been fair or just about...
https://zaharibu.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/the-savagery-of-life-without-parole-lwop-sentencing/
#Lifewithoutparole #prisonersupport #California #innocence #justice #MichaelReedDorrough