Senate Bill 9 has been set for a hearing before the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, July 5th at 9:30a.m. at the State Capitol. Call committee members and urge them to vote yes! Click here for a list of seven members to call: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=57 Join us at the Capitol on the 5th! Send an email to ecalvin@hrw.org if you are coming.
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With the support of thousands of individuals and more than 70 organizations, SB 9 passed in the California Senate on Wednesday. The bill now moves the the State’s lower house, the Assembly.
Futures Denied: Why California Should Not Prosecute 14- and 15-year-olds as Adults (PDF) New report by Human Rights Watch and the W. Haywood Burns Institute, August 2018
The Rest of Our Lives: Life without Parole for Child Offenders in the United States (PDF)
is the first national analysis of life without parole sentences for children
When I Die, They'll Send Me Home: Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California - 2012 update (PDF) finds that in many cases where juveniles were prosecuted with an adult, the youth received heavier sentences than their adult codefendants.
