The Pendulum Foundation has received the language for HB-1287, which would retroactively end juvenile life without parole. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BILL AND ASK FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT IT TOO!!! What HB-1287 Does: Gives those current juveniles serving life without parole or the equivalent a chance for parole after 40 years. Any offender who [...]
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By Rev. Bonnie Young Around the world, we have witnessed many natural disasters in the recent past. We have seen floods, tsunami’s, earthquakes, mud slides and fires. We have seen the wrath of hurricanes and tornadoes and the devastating loss that families have suffered from all of these. Missions organizations and government agencies have responded [...]
Please read this post and then visit Kickstarter to help Joshua Rofe make the movie “When I Die Please Send Me Home.” The experience of juveniles behind bars varies as much as they do for all prisoners. There is no monolithic experience common to all juveniles–and yet there are commonalities. We are all from different [...]
Our “justice system” makes me feel like a battered spouse. You never know when the abuser will torture or torment you and there are enough times when he will pat you on the head or treat you kindly that you keep telling yourself, “He’s really a good man. He just gets a little angry”… or [...]
Between 1992 and 2006 there were approximately 50 juveniles sentenced to life without parole. Many of them killed no one and were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. That didn’t stop District Attorneys around Colorado from using procedures like direct file and felony murder to bypass juvenile court judges and try kids [...]