{"id":388,"date":"2012-01-04T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:31","slug":"massachusetts-a-resource-compendium-for-thinking-about-juvenile-life-without-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2012\/01\/04\/massachusetts-a-resource-compendium-for-thinking-about-juvenile-life-without-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts, a resource compendium for thinking about Juvenile Life without Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Take a look! The Coalition for Effective Public Safety has compiled the following recent articles urging Massachusetts to reconsider its law on Juvenile Life without Parole:<\/div>\n<div><strong>January 3, 2012<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/letters\/2012\/01\/03\/young-have-greater-ability-reform\/Fb3ncMGkKbDDjCZca7tquL\/story.html\">Letter to the Editor<\/a> from David Fassler, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe..com\/opinion\/letters\/2012\/01\/03\/for-son-years-too-many\/tRmaOC1aHWrEPxJd6XN3OJ\/story.html\">Letter to the Editor <\/a>from Joe Donovan, Sr, father of Joe Donovan, a juvenile lifer in Massachusetts:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/letters\/2012\/01\/03\/bay-state-must-relax-youth-punishments\/VRQmlBKSF3chsVQeqRp5UO\/story.html\">Letter to the Editor <\/a>from Jody Kent Lavy, Director of the National Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>December 31, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\">Forgotten Change: State Fails to Measure Impact of Historic Juvenile Justice Reform.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/necir-bu.org\/wp\/forgotten-change\/\">Follow up article<\/a> by the New England Center for Investigative\u00a0Journalism\u00a0on JLWOP in Massachusetts:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>December 27, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\">For teens guilty of murder, penalties can vary widely. <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2011\/12\/27\/for-teens-guilty-murder-penalties-can-vary-widely\/kR8J36bC1mvbcO7udF7ByJ\/story.html\">Article in the\u00a0<em>Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by the New England Center for Investigative\u00a0Journalism\u00a0on JLWOP in Massachusetts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\">&#8216;Our Youngest Killers&#8217;: Juvenile Sentencing Varies Widely Report Shows. <a href=\"http:\/\/radioboston.wbur.org\/2011\/12\/27\/juvenile-sentencing\">Coverage by WBUR<\/a>, Boston NPR, of JLWOP in Massachusetts:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>December 25, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px;line-height: 18px\">If sentences vary too widely, court should make corrections.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/editorials\/articles\/2011\/12\/25\/if_sentences_vary_too_widely_courts_should_make_corrections\/\"><em>Boston Globe\u00a0<\/em>editorial<\/a> supporting greater judicial discretion in JLWOP cases and the review of Joe Donovan&#8217;s case and a sentence reduction:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look! The Coalition for Effective Public Safety has compiled the following recent articles urging Massachusetts to reconsider its law on Juvenile Life without Parole: January 3, 2012 Letter to the Editor from David Fassler, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont: Letter to the Editor from Joe Donovan, Sr, father of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-sentencing","category-youth","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}