- Target:
- national action network,the president,and community members
- Region:
- United States of America
On June 25, the u.s. supreme court in Miller V. Alabama banned mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for children.This is a major victory for children and for america... Until last week America was the only country in the world to routinely condemn children as young as 13 and 14 to die in prison.
Now about 2,000 people who were sentenced to die in prison as children have hope for a new hearing and a new sentence. Now we need to work on getting the courts to ban the practice outright,we must get justice for chilren and end the devastating cradle to prison pipeline crisis that leads to marginalize lives, imprisonment,and premature death.
There are 27 states that put children in adult facilities where they are 10 times more likely to be victims of SEXUAL ASSAULT, 25 times more likely to COMMIT SUICIDE, and there is this silence.
Bryan Stevenson the brilliant founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala. helped changed the nation's course by saying something and doing something,and so must we.
We the the people must speak for the children. The supreme courts decision to abolish mandatory life in prison without parole sentences for children reinforces the importance of never giving up hope as we keep speaking out and fighting for justice for children.
We still have so much work left to do to solve the crisis of children in adult prisons. We the voice for our children call on the supreme courts to stop children from being sent to adult prisons.
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The Stop children from being sent to adult prison petition to national action network,the president,and community members was written by denisegrier and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.