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Examining disparities in crack cocaine sentencing

December 26, 2021 by Amir Shabazz

Law library at U. Michigan.

Powder cocaine offenses given lighter sentences compared to ‘rock’ cocaine After years of fighting for fair federal sentencing reform for those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal, Recently Posted Tagged With: legal, life sentence, sentence overturned

Learning the hard way

December 24, 2021 by Carlos Drouaillet

Lifer violates parole, shares the hard lessons he learned with others Not everyone who gets parole makes a success of their life. Some men like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Opinion, Prison Stories, Recently Posted Tagged With: life sentence

CA Legislature considers expansion of resentencing law

October 30, 2021 by A.J. Hardy

The California Legislature’s 2021-2022 Regular Session is currently considering several bills which, if passed, would change resentencing procedures.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal Tagged With: California, legal, life sentence

HR 6011 a bill to end children's life without parole

November 15, 2018 by John Lam

A Republican congressman introduced a bill to end life-without-parole and defacto life sentences for children in the federal criminal justice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Youth Offender Tagged With: Arkansas, incarcerated youth, life sentence, North Dakota, texas, Utah, youth offenders

Courts may be better than parole board at determining parolee risk

November 15, 2018 by Kevin Sawyer

When a court orders the release of a lifer on parole, statistics show the parolee does not return to prison. But when the Board of Parole Hearings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, Legal Tagged With: Board of Parole Hearings, life sentence

Como expresar remordimiento

November 15, 2018 by Juan Espinosa

Sugerencias de como mostrar remordimiento. Cuando se trata de expresar remordimiento muchos de nosotros, (lifers), fallamos en la manera que lo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Español, Federal BOP, Legal Tagged With: Board of Parole Hearings, life sentence, parole consideration, parole grant rate

Pennsylvania $325,000 for 37 years in solitary

May 8, 2018 by Michelangelo Ramsey

A Pennsylvania inmate who spent 37 years in solitary confinement has been awarded $325,000 in a settlement, according to the Pittsburgh … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: Arthur Johnson, Bret Grote, gang-related murder, life sentence, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, State Correctional Institution Greene

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