National Public Radio

How A Woman Serving Life In Prison Made The Judge Who Sentenced Her Proud
After the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles were unconstitutional, the Court ordered states to review the cases of prisoners given that sentence. We hear about one prisoner in that situation, Jennifer Pruit, and the connection she made with the judge that sentenced her.
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
We're going to hear now about a woman who, for the first time in nearly 25 years, has a hope of living outside prison. Jennifer Pruitt was co...

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344 Days Underground

This brave and generous retelling of a family’s incredible history and a mother’s inspiring sacrifice and efforts to ensure her children’s survival, while maintaining their dignity and identity, has enriched my life and really given me more understanding of just what people went through during the holocaust and World War II.
Rather than dwelling on the disgraceful capability of humans to be cruel to one another, which many books on th...
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The Nation

Lisa, Laquanda, Machelle, and Kenya Were Sentenced as Children to Die in Prison
When Machelle Pearson learned last July that her life sentence would be vacated, she sent home a sepia-toned Polaroid of her late mother that she’d kept in a Bible during her 33 years of incarceration. But then her hopes of release were dashed. Pearson, like many of the roughly 2,500 people sentenced as teenagers to a mandatory sentence of life without parole, has been on a legal roller coaster ever since the Supreme Court ruled in a pair of decisions that juvenile lifers must be provided wit...
www.thenation.com/article/women-without-parole/