Page 23 - Josh Rovner News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana
Washington Court Overturns Automatic Life Sentences for Young Killers
nbcdfw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcdfw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Washington Court Overturns Automatic Life Sentences for Young Killers
nbcsandiego.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcsandiego.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Court overturns automatic life sentences for young killers
GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press
FacebookTwitterEmail
SEATTLE (AP) The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the automatic life-without-parole sentences given to two men for murders committed when they were 19 and 20, saying judges must consider the youthfulness of such defendants in sentencing them.
The ruling appeared to make Washington the first state to ban mandatory life-without-parole terms for offenders who, while over 18 and legally considered adults, might remain in adolescence from a brain-development standpoint.
Lawmakers in a few states including Illinois, Nebraska and Connecticut are this year considering bills that would ban life-without-parole sentences for young adults, said Josh Rovner, a senior advocacy associate at The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Some others, including Florida and California, have already adopted laws that allow youthful adult offenders
NationofChange
New report shows persistent racial and ethnic disparities in youth incarcerations
While youth incarceration has dropped by almost half over the last decade, Back and American Indian youth are more likely to be incarcerated than white youth.
A new report from The Sentencing Project reveals persistent racism in the juvenile justice system. While youth incarceration has dropped by almost half over the last decade, Black and American Indian youth are more likely to be incarcerated than white youth.
Black youth are fives times more likely to be incarcerated, while American Indian youth are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white youth in every state, according to the study. The study revealed that New Jersey was ranked number one for having the highest Black-white disparities in youth incarceration.
The Sentencing Project releases new report documenting Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
Josh Rovner has authored this new report for The Sentencing Project titled Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist. Here is its executive summary:
In an era of declining youth incarceration, Black and American Indian youth are still overwhelmingly more likely to be held in custody than their white peers.
In ten years, the United States has cut youth incarceration in half. While the reduction is impressive, youth involvement in the juvenile justice system continues to impact youth of color disproportionately.
In every state, Black youth are more likely to be incarcerated than their white peers, about five times as likely nationwide. American Indian youth are three times as likely to be incarcerated as their white peers. For Latinx youth disparities are smaller but still prevalent; Latinx youth are 42 percent more likely than their white peers to be incarcerated.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.