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When Murder Charges Reach People Who Didn’t Kill

Feb. 27, 2026

Incarcerated Californians Express Cautious Optimism About New Clemency Proposal

Dec. 30, 2025

LAO Report Exposes “Indefensible Waste” in Prison Budge

Feb. 24, 2026

Numbers Don’t Lie: The Case Against LWOP

January 15, 2026

Top Trends in Criminal Legal Reform, 2025

Dec. 30, 2025

Transcending trauma: Former lifers extol benefits of emotional awareness therapy

November 21, 2025

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

Dec. 29, 2025

The U.S. flouts the UN and international accountability. Again.

Nov. 6, 2025

CA shrank prisons with sentencing changes. A new study shows how that’s working

Aug. 1, 2025

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation-Initiated Resentencing

September 24, 2025

California names the 5th state prison to close because of falling inmate population

August 5, 2025

California AG Opposes 50-Years-to-Life Sentences for Youth Offenders

August 1, 2025

He confessed to a killing at 21. Is it time for California to give him a second chance?

July 30, 2025

Erik & Lyle Menendez Deserve a Second Chance – Because All Human Beings Do!

June 2025

New round of DNA testing proves innocence of man imprisoned for decades for OC slaying

 June 2, 2025

Menendez brothers win resentencing fight: What’s next for their case?

May 14, 2025

Advocates push for ‘full conversation’ on life without parole sentences

May 9, 2025

Newsom cites Menendez brothers case in seeking changes to parole board process

March 10, 2025

Advocates push for ‘full conversation’ on life without parole sentences

Apr. 24, 2025

Man earns bachelor’s degree behind bars; Making plea for commutation

April 16, 2025

Who gets parole? Investigation reveals stark racial differences in past sentencing of robbery murder cases

March 27, 2025

Menendez Brothers’ Resentencing Court Dates Delayed Until April

March 14, 2025

Menendez brothers will undergo parole board risk assessment ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom

March 9, 2025

Drop LWOP Statement on the Recent Positive Ruling in WA Supreme Court on the Case Of Kimonti Carter & Shawn Reite.

June 3, 2024

2 Individuals Credited With ‘Rehabilitating And Changing’ Get 2nd Chance After Washington State Supreme Court’s 2024 Decision

May 27, 2024

Santa Clara Co. district attorney moves to resentence death row inmates to life without parole

April 15, 2024

Drop LWOP Coalition Celebrates Newsom’s Commutations, Calls for More 

April 7, 2024

Disrupting Narratives that Legitimize Long-term Incarceration, from the Inside Out

April 4, 2024

DROP LWOP COALITION CELEBRATES NEWSOM’S COMMUTATIONS, CALLS FOR MORE

April 2, 2024

It’s Known as “Death by Incarceration.” These People Want to End It.

February 9, 2024

I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.

November 29, 2023

I Just Want to Give Back”: The Reintegration of People Sentenced to LWOP

July 1, 2023z

US: Californians Once Facing Life without Parole Give Back

June 28, 2023

Fighting to the End LWOP in the US
“We Aren’t our Worst Mistake”

June 28, 2023

Why I Fight to End ‘Life Without Parole’

June 13, 2023

UN human rights experts begin US tour focusing on racial justice and policing

April 24, 2023

Groups Urge U.N. to Call for Abolition of Death By Incarceration During Historic U.S. Visit

April 28, 2023

Newsom told 123 CA prisoners they could get out early. Many remain behind bars

February 8, 2023

SENATOR CORTESE’S BILL WOULD ALLOW JUDICIAL REVIEW OF OLD SENTENCES

January 19, 2023

Over 25,000 People in Prison Await Decisions on Their Clemency Applications

December 19, 2022

Should We Join the International Committee by Ending LWOP

December 4, 2022

Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”

September 15, 2022

Prisoner Advocates Turn to the UN to End Extreme Prison Sentences

September 15, 2022

This man’s imprisonment shows why CA‘s special circumstances’ must change,

July 29, 2022

Nothing But Time: Elderly Americans Serving Life Without Parole

June 23, 2022

Unjust sentencing law is overdue for reform

June 6, 2022

Canada supreme court rules life without chance of parole is ‘cruel’ and illegal

May 22, 2022

Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”

September 15, 2022

LA Times Article on SB 300 California’s ‘special circumstances’ rule must change

August 02, 2022

Davis Vanguard – CA Capitol Rally to Urge End to ‘Racist, Cruel’ Life without Parole Sentences

August 22, 2022

LWOP is a death sentence: Give Stanley Bernard Davis a chance for parole!

September 14, 2021

DROP LWOP: Fighting Life Without Parole Sentences

September 13, 2022

Drop LWOP Coalition Press Release, September 10, 2021

September 10, 2022

Committee Recommends Ending Three Strikes, LWOP in California

December 10, 2021

Jerry Brown—most forgiving governor in modern California history

December 24, 2018 Updated JUNE 23, 2020

Drop LWOP Rally 2018

August 6th, 2018

Life-Without-Parole Sentences Are Exploding. But America’s Legal Defense System Hasn’t Kept Pace.

May 22, 2021

LWOP Women Released After Years Behind Bars

 July 31, 2021

California Felony-Murder Law Challenge Backed by Ninth

August 8, 2018

California Coalition for Women Prisoners’ Response to Governor’s Holiday Commutations

December 23, 2017

STRATEGY SESSION

 Sept 14-15, 2019

EXECUTIVE ORDER HALTS DEATH PENALTY

March 13, 2019

THE MORAL PROBLEM OF LIFE-WITHOUT-PAROLE SENTENCES

December 23, 2017

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR COMMUTES 9 LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCES

August 18, 2017