Prevent Imposition of Mandatory Minimums Based on Juvenile Records
Prevent courts from using past juvenile offenses to trigger mandatory minimum adult sentence enhancements. Kids are not criminals.
This legislative session, we have a broad docket of legislation, covering issues like voting rights, criminal law reform, digital privacy, immigrants' rights, and reproductive justice.
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Prevent courts from using past juvenile offenses to trigger mandatory minimum adult sentence enhancements. Kids are not criminals.
Ensure that victims of police brutality get their day in court, that officers have to answer to the people they’ve hurt, and that police departments can be held accountable.
Eliminate life without parole sentences for adults and provide parole eligibility after 25 years; Limit sentence lengths further for juveniles and for felony murder and joint venture where the person was a co-participant who did not commit the actual homicide.
End the automatic prosecution of older adolescents as adults and related collateral consequences by raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction to include 18- to 20-year-olds, increasing access to diversion, and implementing positive youth development principles a
Ensure that all victims, witnesses, defendants, and people with civil matters in court receive due process and are able to attend court proceedings in safety.
Build on a successful pilot program and guarantee consistent, evidence-based treatment across Department of Correction and county correctional facilities.