December 20, 2018, Laura Benshoff - WHYY Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has commuted the sentences of three inmates who would otherwise die in prison, bringing the total number granted during his administration up to five. Benny Ortega, Tina Brosius, and Raymond Jordan had each served decades in state prison for offenses ranging from drug trafficking to first-degree murder. Under Wolf, they applied for clemency, riding a wave of hope that his administration would revive a rehabil

Legislative Associate (Harrisburg) The ACLU-PA seeks a legislative associate to help advance the ACLU-PA’s policy priorities through legislative, coalition, and program advocacy while engaging ACLU-PA members and supporters in the campaigns and policy work of the organization. Working under the direction of the legislative director, the legislative associate will be responsible for coordinating the ACLU-PA’s role and and participation in several local and statewide coalitions

Campaign for Smart Justice Organizer (Harrisburg or State College) The ACLU-PA is seeking an organizer in Central Pennsylvania to join its Campaign for Smart Justice team. The Campaign for Smart Justice is a multi-year advocacy campaign to reduce Pennsylvania’s jail and prison population by 50% while combating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Candidates should excel in building high-level relationships and community power through tactics such as creating par

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December 11, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer For the last four years, Kathleen Brown, a University of Pennsylvania nursing professor emerita, has been traveling to Pennsylvania prisons with her students, helping men and women serving life sentences petition the state Board of Pardons for clemency, their only hope of seeing some years outside prison walls. Now, she’s contemplating quitting. “After thousands of hours of volunteering all this time in prisons,

December 12, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer Five years ago, nearly 200 elderly lifers were released from prison en masse — people who had been convicted and sentenced before 1981, under jury instructions that were found unconstitutional in the case Unger v. Maryland. It created a natural experiment: Was it safe to release all these one-time violent criminals? Or would they land right back in prison? (A group of members of the class of lifers known as Unger

OIC of America Job Title: Fiscal Coordinator Supervisor: Controller Salary: Competitive Salary & Benefits Package FSLA Status: Exempt, Full-time Regular Location: Philadelphia, PA POSITION SUMMARY: OICA is hiring a Fiscal Coordinator to work with the OICA national re-entry program, Skills and Opportunities for Achievement and Responsibility (SOAR), to review, track, and monitor expenses to ensure alignment with the policies and procedures which govern the grants. A major pa

OIC of America Job Title: Director of Partnerships Supervisor: Senior Director of Operations and Strategy Salary: $57,000 - $65,000 + Competitive Benefits Package FSLA Status: Exempt, Full-time Regular Location: Philadelphia, PA MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s Degree in Business/ Public Administration, Communications, Criminology, or any related field. Master’s Degree preferred (MBA, MPA, MPP, MSW, or MA/MS in related field). 5 or more years’ experience building strategic

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December 12, 2018, Kristen De Groot - The Philadelphia Inquirer Is good moral character required to wax eyebrows and give facials? In the state of Pennsylvania it is, and two women denied licenses to work as cosmetologists because they ran afoul of that regulation are challenging the law in court. Courtney Haveman and Amanda Spillane filed suit on Tuesday, with the help of non-profit law firm the Institute for Justice, claiming the state's good moral character requirement for