#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 -
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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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?