Alison Parker

Back in 2004, when I first started working on the problem of children being sentenced to life without parole (LWOP), a lot of people told me “no.” Lawyers in the juvenile death penalty case Roper v. Simmons told me not to work on juvenile lifers without parole (JLWOP) – they thought drawing attention to the human rights abuse of sentencing kids to life without parole would make it harder to convince the Supreme Court to end the human rights abuse of the juvenile death penalty. The other groups that told me “no” were national and … [Read more...] about Human Rights Watch: Alison Parker Addresses Juvenile Lifer Policies Across America