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CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE Hopefully as one peruses the contents of
these pages and documents, one begins to see the overwhelming majority of work
devoted to the juvenile killers, and massive amount of monetary resources
spent on creating a very sympathetic picture of the young criminals, with virtually no attention to the
horrible crimes themselves, the victims of
these crimes, and the damage left behind in the wake of the horrific choices
these young offenders made. We ask the media, the academic world, the Foundations world, and the legal community to take up the victims with equal fervor, attention and resources. Contact Us to send us links, updates, and materials to post on this page
PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO ABOLISH JLWOP Testimony from Illinois JLWOP victims:
1. Oral Testimony against JLWOP bill
United States Federal Legislation on JLWOP - HR 4300
DOCUMENTS, BOOKS, AND REPORTS ON VICTIMS, SENTENCING, and JLWOP
**It it absolutely thoughtless of the victims
of these
crimes for the NAACP to title this report "No Chance to Make It Right". *****Regarding the research paper written by Mr. Roberge, the Stanford student who interviewed Jennifer to get the perspective of someone who favors the JLWOP sentence: we commend this young man's efforts in researching and writing this paper. I enjoyed interviewing with him. No paper of this length and attempting to cover this breadth will do justice to the nuanced position I hold and that is required when thinking about the JLWOP sentence. In general, And I believe that my own position is much more complex and less black and white than I am portrayed - but it is helpful for me to see myself as someone who interviews me sees me. If I have not gotten my message across clearly than I have to work at my message. I don't have the faith in the criminal justice system this portrays. I know it is riddled with error - serious error - and is in need of dramatic reform - as are most human institutions, by the way. I am not primarily an "opponent" of reform to the JLWOP sentence, and in fact am a strong advocate for sweeping criminal justice system reforms. I am primarily an advocate for victims rights of notification and empowerment to be heard in all matters pertaining to their cases. My message is that the sentence is only appropriate in the
most rare of circumstances - when a thorough and PROPER rigorous and honest and
just due process of law is given to a case and all agree that likely this
sociopath will never qualify for release, then the Human Rights of the victims
not to have to be re-injured to the degree that regular parole reviews DO damage
them should outweigh any right to review the offender has. And there is the
point. There ARE going to be offenders - no matter their age at the time of the
crime - that a rigorous and fair justice system will find unable to ever be
released. My most progressive and expert friends agree with me about that. |
