Child Life Without Parole
Take action in your state!
Click on your State to send an action to your state representatives to demand an end to the practice of sentencing child offenders to life in prison without parole.
Tell your state legislators to...
- Enact legislation that abolishes the sentence of life without parole for any offense committed by a child.
- Strictly limit the practice of trying children in the adult criminal courts.
- Repeal or modify existing transfer provisions that automatically require all children charged with certain offenses to be tried as adults.
- Enact legislation that eliminates the prosecutorial option of filing cases against child offenders directly in adult criminal court.
- Increase funding, training, and administrative support for juvenile public defender programs.
