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S3E10: When Children Are Sentenced to Life Without Parole, with April Barber-Scales
In this episode of Just Justice, Jessica Henry speaks with April Barber-Scales, who was sentenced as a pregnant teenager to life without parole. In 2022, April received a rare commutation from North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and has since devoted herself to advocating for people in prison and against extreme sentences. Founder of the nonprofit Fenced In: Fighting For Freedom Advocacy, April sha
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Breaking Good is one of those memoirs that grabs you from page one and doesn’t ever let go. Nikki Mammano traces her life from New Jersey to the sun-drenched but shadowy streets of Waikiki. The result is a fresh, raw, and often funny story of addicti
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“Therein lies part of the problem as well. Good guys versus bad guys. It's a false dichotomy, a two-dimensional cartoon rather than a multidimensional, full-blown portrayal of actual people. Constructs like these minimize the humanity of the people being prosecuted. Criminal defendants become a parade of disposable people who are somehow less than human and not worthy of careful, sometimes agonizing consideration of the possibility that somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong.”
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
― Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
