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Batts II: An Atrocity Towards Children

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II Decision is an Atrocity Towards Child Offenders,” by Shakaboona. There was no victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II case decision. In fact, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision was… Full Transcript

Philly Judges Seek Legal Lynching of Child Lifer

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

July 24-25, 2017, marks the date that Kempis “Ghani” Songster will have a highly-contested resentencing hearing in a Philadelphia courtroom, and we are calling every Woman, Man, and Child, to appear at the Courthouse in… Full Transcript

PA Parole Chairman Rejects Special Protections for Child Lifer Prisoners

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Leo Dunn, Chairman of Pennsylvania’s Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) has been touring the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ (PDOC) prisons to discuss parole review hearings for child lifer prisoners.On January 9, 2017, Chairman Dunn… Full Transcript

Juvenile Lifer Project: Symbol without Substance

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana, the PDOC Secretary John Wetzel has implemented the Juvenile Lifer Project (JLP) for the child lifers in the State prison system,… Full Transcript

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

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

Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences

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

For the Youth Hope

Mumia Abu-Jamal

The U.S. Supreme Court issued another landmark ruling recently when it announced, in Montgomery V. Louisiana, that life imprisonment without parole was unconstitutional for juvenile prisoners, and that they should be granted new sentences or… Full Transcript

Kerry Shakaboona Marshall Reacts to Supreme Decision Interviewed by Noelle Hanrahan