Former Inmate, Advocates and Attorneys Honored for Work to Reform Sentencing [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/17/1612:00 PM

Wine and tears poured and tissues were borrowed as several juvenile justice reform advocates were honored for their work to end life without parole for juvenile offenders.

The first award winners at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth’s highly emotional Hope & Healing awards ceremony Tuesday were Steve Drizin and Laura Nirider, the advocates working to earn “Making a Murderer” star Brendan Dassey his freedom.

Gary Tyler, sentenced to death at age 16 in 1974 by an all-white Louisiana jury, was honored for his work while incarcerated and his anti-death penalty advocacy. His legal team — made up of George Kendall, Mary Howell, Majeeda Snead, Corrine Irish and Emily Ratner — was also honored for the decadeslong and eventually successful struggle to free Tyler.

[For more of this story, written by Allen Fennewald, go to http://jjie.org/former-inmate-...m-sentencing/347761/]

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