YSRP staff gathered on February 1, 2023, to celebrate freedom and commemorate the 7th anniversary of the landmark Montgomery v. Louisiana US Supreme Court decision with former Juvenile Lifers, advocates, and movement leaders.
YSRP presents at the BlackStar Film Festival
Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project Co-Director Joanna Visser Adjoian moderated a Q&A with Darius Clark Monroe following the Philadelphia premiere of his documentary, Evolution of a Criminal (Executive Produced by Spike Lee) at the BlackStar Film Festival. She also presented on a panel called Reading, Writing, and Arrest: Issues at the Crossroads of Access to Education, Justice, and Criminal Law, hosted by the American Bar Association at Penn Law School.
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