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Ask Congress to support the Second Look Act

New federal legislation would give a "second look" to people serving long sentences who have aged out of crime.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker and U.S. House Representative Karen Bass have introduced bicameral legislation to create a sentence review procedure for people serving sentences longer than ten years in federal prison. MORE »

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Louisiana’s life without parole sentencing the nation’s highest — and some say that should change »
Fact: DC has a mass incarceration problem »
An Argument Against Life Sentences, Especially For Juvenile Defendants »
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Marc Mauer Calls for Abolishing Life Sentences »
Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency; But There Is No Relief For 182 People With Same Life Sentence »
The Brian Lehrer Show: Calling for the End of Life Sentences »
Pennsylvania is poised for much-needed criminal justice reform, but can we abolish life without parole? »
The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years »
Barbaric and Excessive: Two Books on Punishment in the United States »
Webinar: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences in the United States »

Events

Second Looks: Confronting and Redressing Mass Incarceration »
“Philly DA” Film Screening »
No End in Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance on Life Imprisonment »
Mass Incarceration, COVID-19 & Extreme Sentencing »
Abolishing Life Imprisonment »
Taking a Second Look at Life Sentences in America »
49 Years After Attica: Decarcerate Now! »
2020 State Criminal Justice Network Conference »
Crime, Race, and Politics in the Era of COVID-19 »
From Justice Reinvestment to Defund the Police »