After 2016 ruling, battles over juvenile lifer cases persist
January 21, 2019, Sharon Cohen and Adam Geller - Associated Press Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime...
200 elderly lifers got out of prison en masse. Here’s what happened next.
December 12, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer Five years ago, nearly 200 elderly lifers were released from prison en...
Innocent — and stuck in prison for life? Philly juvenile lifers face a Catch 22
December 9, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer First, there was the chaotic din of shouting and street noise. Then, David...
John Pace and His Friends Expected to Die in Prison
November 16, 2018, Katie Rose Quandt - The Nation On a Saturday morning in early June, 15 men in their 40s, 50s, and 60s gathered in a...
In Philadelphia, a community-based program teaches defendants how to help themselves
October 5, 2018, Annette John-Hall - WHYY "Austin didn’t know much about how the legal system worked when he was charged and sentenced....
Reparations for Incarceration Community Events
Mary DeWitt and Paulette Carrington will collaborate with Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral in Reparations for Incarceration, an art...
How the Formerly Incarcerated Support the Formerly Incarcerated
August 30, 2018, Zoe Sullivan - Next City "Growing up in New Orleans, Daniel Tapia, 34, moved every couple of years. “I started selling...
YSRP is Hiring a Reentry Supervisor!
Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project is seeking an experienced social worker to lead our Reentry team. This is a full-time, exempt, staff...
Formerly incarcerated citizens re-engage with the political process
March 31, 2018 Samaria Bailey The Philadelphia Tribune After serving more than 31 years of a life sentence on a homicide charge, Suave...
Proposed law would make life without parole a thing of the past in Pennsylvania
March 26, 2018 By Shai Ben-Yaacov WHYY Being sentenced to life without the possibility of parole could be a thing of the past in...