All 49 Uses of "parole" in "Just Mercy" - Auto-generated

There are nearly six million people on probation or on parole.†

p. 15.2 *

For years, we've been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison.†

p. 15.5

We have abolished parole in many states.†

p. 15.7

Lindsey received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole from his jury, but the judge had "overridden" it and imposed a death sentence on his own.†

p. 69.9

In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole.†

p. 70.1

This lady's grandson might be facing life imprisonment without parole, but given the overwhelming number of death penalty cases on our docket, I couldn't rationalize taking on his case.†

p. 116.2

I even challenged Judge Robert E. Lee Key's override of the jury's life sentence, though I knew the reduction of an innocent man's death sentence to life imprisonment without parole would still have been an egregious miscarriage of justice.†

p. 127.6

Victims' advocates were added to parole boards, and in most states they were given a formal role in state and local prosecutors' offices.†

p. 141.8

parole boards = groups of people responsible for determining if early release from prison is permitted and if so, what conditions should be required of the prisoner

Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence.†

p. 150.6

She is one of nearly five hundred people in Pennsylvania who have been condemned to mandatory life imprisonment without parole for crimes they were accused of committing when they were between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.†

p. 151.8

The lawyer didn't realize that two of the charges against Ian were punishable with sentences of life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 152.2

The judge accepted Ian's plea and then sentenced him to life with no parole.†

p. 152.2

By 2010, Florida had sentenced more than a hundred children to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, several of whom were thirteen years old at the time of the crime.†

p. 153.9

Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder.†

p. 156.4

Most adults convicted of the kinds of crimes with which Trina, Ian, and Antonio were charged are not sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 156.7

There were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the United States children who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or other extreme sentences.†

p. 160.6

I wanted to photograph some of our clients in order to give the lifewithout-parole sentences imposed on children a human face.†

p. 161.8

I thought about how if Judge Robert E. Lee Key hadn't overridden the jury's verdict of life imprisonment without parole and imposed the death penalty, which brought the case to our attention, Walter likely would have spent the rest of his life incarcerated and died in a prison cell.†

p. 224.9

It was beyond what she would have imag fined even before she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.†

p. 228.1

The trial court sentenced Mrs. Colbey to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and a short while later she found herself shackled in a prison van heading to the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.†

p. 235.7

A grant of parole, the arrival of a hoped-for letter, a visit from a long-absent family member would lift everyone's spirits.†

p. 238.1

She was convicted of multiple charges that triggered a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 238.7

The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.†

p. 259.1

My staff and I discussed how we might use the constitutional reasoning that banned the execution of children as a legal basis for challenging juvenile life-without-parole sentences.†

p. 264.4

We filed similar challenges to life-without-parole sentences in several other cases involving children, including Ian Manuel's case.†

p. 264.5

The older boy made a deal with prosecutors and got a parole-eligible life sentence, while Evan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 265.6

The older boy made a deal with prosecutors and got a parole-eligible life sentence, while Evan was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 265.6

Our litigation strategy was complicated by the fact that more than 2,500 children in the United States had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 269.7

We decided to focus on two subsets of kids to help the Court grant relief if it wasn't ready to ban all life sentences without parole for juveniles.†

p. 269.8

There were fewer than a hundred children under the age of fifteen who had been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.†

p. 269.9

Most juveniles sentenced to life imprisonment without parole had been convicted of homicide crimes.†

p. 269.9

We estimated there were fewer than two hundred juvenile offenders serving life without parole for non-homicide offenses.†

p. 270.1

The Court granted review in Joe's case and in another Florida case that involved a sixteen-year-old teen convicted of a non-homicide and sentenced to life with no parole.†

p. 270.9

Because both Joe's case and the Graham case involved non-homicides, it was likely that if we won a favorable ruling from the Court, it would only apply to life-without-parole sentences imposed on juveniles convicted of non-homicides, but that was an exciting possibility.†

p. 271.2

A wide assortment of children's rights advocates, lawyers, and mental health experts were watching closely when we asked the Court to declare life-without-parole sentences imposed on children unconstitutional.†

p. 272.2

I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children.†

p. 272.3

It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country.†

p. 282.8

On May 17, 2010, I was sitting in my office waiting anxiously when the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible.†

p. 295.2

Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides.†

p. 295.7

Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences.†

p. 296.1

A few years earlier, we won the release of Phillip Shaw, who was fourteen when he was improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri.†

p. 296.5

We ended up taking on almost one hundred new cases following the court's ban on life imprisonment without parole for kids convicted of non-homicide offenses.†

p. 302.1

We then took on another hundred new cases after the decision banning mandatory life without parole for juveniles.†

p. 302.2

The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.†

p. 302.2

Antonio Nufiez's judge in Orange County, California, replaced his sentence of life imprisonment without parole with a sentence of 175 years.†

p. 302.6

We told the judges and parole boards we were committed to providing the assistance our clients required.†

p. 303.1

parole boards = groups of people responsible for determining if early release from prison is permitted and if so, what conditions should be required of the prisoner

In particular, the Louisiana clients serving life without parole for non-homicides faced many challenges.†

p. 303.1

Mr. Carter was resentenced to life imprisonment without parole and sent to Angola.†

p. 304.2

In the wake of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling banning life imprisonment without parole for children convicted of non-homicide crimes, hundreds of children condemned to die in prison are now being resentenced and dozens have already been released.†

p. 315.9

parole in Just Mercy (Auto-generated)

parole
in
Just Mercy
(Auto-generated)