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House Bill 2135 and Parole Eligibility for Life Sentence Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda posted May 25,2016 to all House members, Representative Jason Dawkins announced he will be introducing a bill in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that will abolish Life-Without-Parole (LWOP) imprisonment in… Full Transcript
Philly District Attorney Trades One Illegal Sentence For Another
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Philadelphia District Attorney (D.A.) Seth Williams finally released his Juvenile Resentencing Protocol in compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Miller vs. Alabama and Montgomery vs. Louisiana. D.A. Seth Williams has stated “we are… Full Transcript
PA Parole Board Lags Behind In Reform for Child Lifers
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) is in the pits when it comes to reforming the way it handles parole review of child offenders and child lifer prisoners. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court… Full Transcript
PA Parole Board Refused to Reform How It Reviewed Child Lifer Prisoners for Parole Release
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Parole Board Refused to Reform How it Reviewed Child Lifer Prisoners for Parole Release,” by Shakaboona. In this great sea of societal change, the people of America, followed by the United States Supreme Court, has… Full Transcript
The Children of Perdition
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Montgomery v. Louisiana (which made its previous Miller v. Alabama ruling (regarding life terms for juveniles retroactive), shined a harsh light on the systems which utilized… Full Transcript
Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, United States Supreme Court held that imposing a mandatory sentence on a child offender constituted a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The question remained whether the… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the aftermath of Miller v. Alabama, a case that abolished automatic life without parole sentencing of children convicted of murder, the question has arisen whether its holding in Miller is retroactive to child offenders… Full Transcript
Supreme Court Declares Miller Retroactive to All Children Sentenced to Life Without Parole
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a six three decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Montgomery v. Louisiana that Miller’s prohibition on automatic life without parole sentences for child homicide offenders announced a new substantive rule… Full Transcript
Judicial Fury
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Montgomery v. Louisiana decision, ruled that its earlier 2012 ruling in the Miller v. Alabama case, (limiting life sentences when it came to juvenile defendants) was indeed retroactive… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Need Not Create a New Law to Parole 550 Child Lifer Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
On January 25, 2016 the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Montgomery v. Louisiana, holding that Miller v. Alabama’s prohibition on mandatory life without parole for child homicide offenders is retroactive, on state collateral… Full Transcript
The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2016
The Conversation’s Started
Kenneth Hartman
After more than 35 years, it looks like the conversation’s finally started about the cruelty and the unfairness of life without parole sentences. Academics and activists have been talking about it, but now, on August… Full Transcript
Life As An Innocent Prisoner
Lorenzo Cat Johnson
A lot of people know me as an innocent prisoner who served sixteen and a half years before a federal court vacated my life sentence and sent me home, only for the United States Supreme… Full Transcript
“Philly District Attorney Seth Williams Blocked Child Lifers’ Path to Freedom,” by Shakaboona. In June 2012 the United States Supreme Court abolished mandatory life without parole sentencing schemes for child homicide offenders in Miller v.… Full Transcript