Advocates AAA's Blog (13)

10 Reasons Why Juveniles Should Not Be Tried or Sentenced as Adults

1. It is wrong to hold children and adolescents who have not reached legal age to adult standards. In other areas of law we recognize the…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 28, 2011 at 4:03pm — No Comments

It’s time for the international moral embarrassment of juvenile life without parole to end.

Only the U.S. and Somalia sentence teenagers to life without parole. Adam Serwer tells the heartbreaking stories of kids who kill their abusers. Inside the heartbreaking stories of kids who kill the adults who abuse them.

At 16, Sarah Kruzan was sentenced to life without parole for killing her…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 28, 2011 at 3:58pm — No Comments

Voices for Torey

Target: Honorable Judge Peter D. McDermott 624 E Center St. Pocatello Idaho 83201
Sponsored by: www.justiceforjuveniles.org…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 23, 2011 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Controversy over case of Florida boy, 12, charged as adult in little brother's death

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 23, 2011 at 12:54pm — No Comments

Petition the President: Direct the FBI to investigate misconduct that affects trial outcomes

14-years-old Detroiter Davontae Sanford, blind in one eye and developmentally disabled, was convicted of a quadruple homicide that one of the real shooters cleared him of. His mother was the first to click… Continue

Added by Advocates AAA on October 20, 2011 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Changing The Youth:The New Revolution....

Change is the most wishful word in the English language. It evoke feeling of hope. Strong possibilities and endless…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 15, 2011 at 8:08am — No Comments

You strip me from my freedom

You strip me from my freedom,I admit I've did some wrongs.But why are you trying… Continue

Added by Advocates AAA on October 15, 2011 at 7:24am — No Comments

D.B.I. (DEATH BY INCARCERATION)

You have heard the saying, "Life in prison without the possibility of Parole".This is an incorrect way of saying it. No, the proper term to use is "Death in prison without the possibility of… Continue

Added by Advocates AAA on October 15, 2011 at 7:14am — No Comments

Saving Sara - Putting the pieces back together

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 10, 2011 at 3:26am — No Comments

Caught on camera: The shocking moment 40 prison guards kick and punch juvenile inmates... already handcuffed

By Mail Foreign Service

In shocking CCTV footage of a prison riot, guards kicked and punched young inmates who were already in handcuffs.

Chaotic scenes were captured by surveillance video at the Juvenile Detention Centre in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mayhem broke out when an inmate…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 4, 2011 at 10:01am — 2 Comments

Another Call to Be Maladjusted -

Throughout the course of human history, time and time again, civilizations have enacted laws and sanctioned social policies that have exploited and oppressed men, women, and children for their inalienable rights. They have been tortured with the tactics of…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 3, 2011 at 6:12pm — No Comments

Truth about Youth

For far too long we have accepted and nourished a culture that systematically devalues the importance of our children reaching their maximal development.

A culture that pretends to believe that our Nation's children will fulfill their potential in dilapidated, unsafe schools with out dated curriculum's and equipment. A culture that designed the minds, the ideas and the motives of two Pennsylvania Court Judges, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and Micheal…

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Added by Advocates AAA on October 3, 2011 at 4:11pm — No Comments