Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would effectively abolish life sentences for any incarcerated individual who was younger than 21 when the sentence was handed down.
In January, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law that makes inmates who were younger than 21 when sentenced to life in prison eligible for parole review after they served 40 years or more of their sentence. But the measure applied only to those sentenced on or after June 1, 2019.
The Rev. Lindsey Hammond, policy director at Restore Justice, a nonpartisan statewide organization that advocates for criminal legal reform, testified that juveniles are more capable of rehabilitation as they"grow and mature." "In the case of a retroactive change in the law, you have to do it differently," Jenkins said in an interview."You have to make sure that everybody that's going to be affected is found and notified and heard from."
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