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Joe Ligon, The Nation’s Oldest Juvenile Lifer, Just Left PA Prison After 68 Years

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Samantha Melamed - February 11, 2021 Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County...

Searchlight Series: Youth Sentencing, Reentry, and Partnership in the COVID Era

Free. Live-streamed on Facebook and via Zoom webinar. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 6 PM – 7 PM The Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project...

How a Group of Lifers Cracked the Code of Prison Reform

Politico: Anna Clark - June 25, 2020 This is going to be the rest of my life. They want me to die here.” Demel Dukes, a 41-year-old...

“Juvenile Lifers” Were Meant to Get a Second Chance. COVID-19 Could Get Them First

Eli Hager - June 3, 2020 Darnell Johnson long believed that he would die alone in a prison cell. In 1998, a Michigan court sentenced him...

Study Shows Low Rate of Recidivism Among Juvenile Lifers in Philadelphia Who Were Released

A new study from researchers at Montclair State University shows that approximately 1.14% of people who were sentenced to life in prison...

Is it a New Day for Reentry in Philadelphia? We Hope So.

By Joanna Visser Adjoian and Cameron Holmes According to Mayor Jim Kenney, who began his second term as mayor on Jan. 6, his stated goals...

Labeled a murderer for 24 years, Philadelphia man is exonerated

June 24, 2019, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer It took almost 25 years, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office...

YSRP receives Impact100 Philadelphia's $100,000 Core Mission grant

(Joanna Visser Adjoian, Co-Director, and Cameron Holmes, Reentry Supervisor, present to Impact100 Philadelphia's members on June 3,...

Philly judge stuns wrongly convicted juvenile lifer by setting him free after 21 years in prison

May 22, 2019, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer After fighting for 21 years to be exonerated of participating in a 1996 West...

Reentry Think-Tank Fellow, Abd'Allah Lateef, featured on Justice in America Podcast Episode 13:

January 30, 2019, Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith - The Appeal "Josie and Clint interview Abd’Allah Lateef, Pennsylvania Coordinator for...

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