Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act

OR HR 4300…..

We are excited to report that on September 11, 2008 the House Judiciary Committee subcommittee on crime and terrorism will hold an information hearing on HR 4300.  This is a first step in the process of moving this legislation through our government processes.  For those of you that would like more information on this legislation or would like to read the language of the bill, please go to www.hr4300.com.

This will give youth offenders who are serving Life Without the Opportunity For Parole (LWOP) the chance to see a parole board once in 15 years and every three years after that.  This doesn’t mean that we will let all of them out wholesale.  This does not mean that everyone of the offenders will receive the benefit of parole.  What it DOES mean is that they will be given a chance….a second chance….to make something of their lives…..to give back to their communities……that’s all they ask. 

A chance.

Please got to www.house.govand click on the tab marked “Representatives”.  Find the Representatives for your state and then for your district.  Send them a short e-mail encouraging them to hear and support Representatives Scott and Conyers in their effort to reform our Juvenile Justice legislation.

How long do we want the notoriety of being the only nation in the world that sentences it’s children to die in prison? 

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