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Aging and Incarceration with Celeste Barry, The Sentencing Project, and Jose Saldana, Release Aging People in Prison

February 25, 2025 by susie day

Cheryl Beversdorf / Aging Matters (podcast) — In the United States, the federal government and every state enforces sentencing laws that incarcerate people for lengths that will exceed, or likely exceed, the span of a person's natural life. The large number of people serving life sentences raises critical questions about moral, financial, and justice-related consequences that must be addressed by the nation as well as the states. Today, my guests are Celeste Barry, program associate of The Sentencing Project and José Saldaña, director of an organization called Release Aging People in Prison...

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UN Human Rights Committee Calls for Moratorium on Life Without Parole in U.S.

November 3, 2023 by susie day

November 3, 2023: Groups fighting Death By Incarceration traveled to Geneva to brief committee for its review of U.S. compliance with human rights treaty

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UN Special Rapporteurs criticize U.S. death-by-incarceration sentences

October 17, 2023 by susie day

October 17, 2023: RAPP members join delegation to United Nations, Geneva Switzerland • testify on racial discrimination in prison sentencing

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DEATH BY INCARCERATION IS TORTURE: The Cruelty of Life Imprisonment in the United States

September 18, 2023 by susie day

September 12, 2023: "Isn’t part of the human experience learning from mistakes and becoming better? . . . We transgress, we’re held accountable, we transform, and then we make amends. Death by incarceration strips people of this experience..."

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Ending Perpetual Punishment: The case for commutations for people in Michigan prisons

August 13, 2018 by susie day

August, 2018: American Friends Service Committee Read Here

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Against Life Without Parole

May 1, 2018 by susie day

May, 2018: Judith Lichtenberg, Washington University Jurisprudence Review Read Here

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You Can’t Get There From Here: Elderly Prisoners, Prison Downsizing, and the Insufficiency of Cost Cutting Advocacy

April 21, 2013 by susie day

April, 2013: Elizabeth Rapaport, University of New Mexico School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series Read Here

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At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly

June 13, 2012 by susie day

June 13, 2012: American Civil Liberties Union/ ACLU Read Here

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