Creating Meaningful Opportunities for Release: Graham, Miller and California’s Youth Offender Parole Hearings

Introduction

We have a lot of fighting left to do, both in court and in the legislature, and my work will continue on this issue and many others.

We reject the view that prosecution will ever be the solution to the crisis of mass incarceration.

The kid’s name was Lil’ Yo—well, that’s what all his little buddies called him—and immediately his presence snagged my attention.

This is the part that people in the real world do not see: the aftermath of a life sentence.