This is a powerful story. Thank you Nancy for given a voice to so many "children" who have been warehoused in our prisons and forgotten, left without hope...never given the opportunity to grow up, reform, learn, or make a dignified and useful contribution to their families, their neighborhoods, and the society they seek redemption in and forgiveness from.
Your willingness to listen to their stories, describe their lives, give a face to their struggle, and advocate for their right to be heard, is humbling. Thank you. I am "encouraged" by this story to do more.
The Bay Area may soon be witnessing high-profile cases of juveniles being sentenced as adults as the Richmond High School gang rape case goes to trial. Three of the people charged so far are juveniles. If they are found guilty, then the sentencing decisions, and how they will be received by the public, will be major signifiers for the question of juvenile sentencing.
This makes sense. We've all heard of adult criminals using those under 18 as accomplices, because the punishment for someone who is 17 years and 9 months old is less than for someone doing the same thing who is 18 years and two months old.
What was the crime? What are the circumstances? What's the context? These questions would seem to be easily as valid as the age of the person. Or am I being naive?
The simple answer is NO. Parole is already a high bar for prisoners to clear, and to preemptively deny a minor the chance to ever be released on parole presents grave problems for families, prisons, and courts.
A specific type of parole is medical parole or compassionate release which is the release of prisoners on medical or humanitarian grounds. Conditions of parole often include things such as obeying the law, refraining from drug and alcohol use, avoiding contact with the parolee's victims, obtaining employment, and maintaining required contacts with a parole officer. phlebotomist
Parole should not be confused with probation, as parole is serving the remainder of a sentence outside of prison, where probation is given instead of a prison sentence and as such, tends to place more rigid obligations upon the individual serving the term. TESOL Certification
This means that a convict could be entitled to spend the rest of the sentence that is, until he or she dies) outside of prison. Early release is usuallyconditional depending on past and future conduct, possibly with certain restrictions or obligations. In contrast, in jurisdictions without life imprisonment, a convict who has served the given prison sentence is upon release. optical illusions
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This is a powerful story. Thank you Nancy for given a voice to so many "children" who have been warehoused in our prisons and forgotten, left without hope...never given the opportunity to grow up, reform, learn, or make a dignified and useful contribution to their families, their neighborhoods, and the society they seek redemption in and forgiveness from.
Your willingness to listen to their stories, describe their lives, give a face to their struggle, and advocate for their right to be heard, is humbling. Thank you. I am "encouraged" by this story to do more.
The Bay Area may soon be witnessing high-profile cases of juveniles being sentenced as adults as the Richmond High School gang rape case goes to trial. Three of the people charged so far are juveniles. If they are found guilty, then the sentencing decisions, and how they will be received by the public, will be major signifiers for the question of juvenile sentencing.
Important story... life is unfair. There is no place for blanket sentencing in a just system.
This makes sense. We've all heard of adult criminals using those under 18 as accomplices, because the punishment for someone who is 17 years and 9 months old is less than for someone doing the same thing who is 18 years and two months old.
What was the crime? What are the circumstances? What's the context? These questions would seem to be easily as valid as the age of the person. Or am I being naive?
The simple answer is NO. Parole is already a high bar for prisoners to clear, and to preemptively deny a minor the chance to ever be released on parole presents grave problems for families, prisons, and courts.
A specific type of parole is medical parole or compassionate release which is the release of prisoners on medical or humanitarian grounds. Conditions of parole often include things such as obeying the law, refraining from drug and alcohol use, avoiding contact with the parolee's victims, obtaining employment, and maintaining required contacts with a parole officer. phlebotomist
Parole should not be confused with probation, as parole is serving the remainder of a sentence outside of prison, where probation is given instead of a prison sentence and as such, tends to place more rigid obligations upon the individual serving the term. TESOL Certification
This means that a convict could be entitled to spend the rest of the sentence that is, until he or she dies) outside of prison. Early release is usuallyconditional depending on past and future conduct, possibly with certain restrictions or obligations. In contrast, in jurisdictions without life imprisonment, a convict who has served the given prison sentence is upon release. optical illusions