#jlwop

[mr-vodkaa]

Did Barry say why he couldnt continue writing?

Yes he did. He said he thought he was at point in life where he was ready to engage with more people but turned out he wasn't. He's sorry for being unfair and thanked me for reaching out.

[mr-vodkaa]

Barry told me that he won't be able to continue writing. I respect his decision tho its kinda sad

[mr-vodkaa]

Do you plan on writing Barry back? Or have you wrote him back already after seeing his “a few months old” reply?

Hii I responded to him immediately as soon as I read his reply. But he haven't emailed me back yet, guess I have to wait for couple of months again but iz okie

[mtsu4u]

“...what are the stories that we have been told that created mass incarceration in the first place? What are the stories that are told about Black children? About brown children? About indigenous children that make it so that someone can even conceive of the idea that putting a child in prison for the rest of their lives is aligned with any notion of justice that we believe in? And it’s a very specific set of stories that we tell that are impossible to disentangle from the history of slavery that ultimately, when you study history, it becomes clear why we are the only country in the world that sentences children to life without parole...”

-Clint Smith, in conversation with Abd’Allah Lateef

[mtsu4u]

“By 1999, juveniles could be tried as adults in criminal court in every state. In twenty-nine states, juveniles are automatically transferred by statute to criminal court for certain crimes; in fifteen, prosecutors are given discretion to file petitions directly in criminal court; in forty-five, juvenile court judges may decide to transfer juvenile cases to criminal court; and a few states have simply lowered the age of criminal responsibility below the age of eighteen. As a result, an ever-growing number of persons under eighteen are prosecuted as adults.”

Source:

Guggenheim, M., & Hertz, R. (2016). Selling kids short: How rights for kids turned into kids for cash. Temple Law Review, 88(4), 653–674.

[thesociologicalcinema]

Juvenile Life without Parole Sentencing Isn't Colorblind 80% of the people serving JLWOP (Juvenile Life without Parole) in Pennsylvania are people of color--a pattern repeated across the country. Since 1992, a black juvenile arrested for homicide has been twice as likely as his white counterpart to be sentenced to life without parole. Source: No Hope: Re-examining Lifetime Sentences for Juvenile Sentences 

[gregleding]

Passed HB1197 through House Judiciary Tuesday. I'll present the bill before the full House Thursday.

[gregleding]

I'm working with Senator Missy Irvin (R-Mountain View) to address this issue here in Arkansas. Our state maintains one of the largest populations of individuals serving juvenile life without parole (JLWOP). Only Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, California, and Louisiana hold more individuals sentenced to JLWOP.

Last November, I traveled to Washington, DC, for the annual Healing & Hope event hosted by the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. While there, I joined a handful of bipartisan legislators from across the country as part of a workshop panel to talk about juvenile justice issues.