{"id":1266,"date":"2018-09-17T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:25:14","slug":"fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTHOUT<\/p>\n<p>By Jean Troustine<\/p>\n<p>When incarcerated people in 17 states initiated a 19-day prison strike last month, one of their\u00a010 demands\u00a0was that all \u201cimprisoned humans have [the] possibility of rehabilitation and parole.\u201d This includes the opportunity for early release, allowing prisoners both to exit before the end of their sentence and to serve their remaining time in the community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_249332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249332\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1130px) 100vw, 1130px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania.png 1130w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania-200x87.png 200w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania-400x173.png 400w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Lady-Lifers-Pennsylvania-800x346.png 800w\" alt=\"The Lady Lifers at SCI Muncy sing, &quot;This Is Not My Home&quot; at TEDx in 2014.\" width=\"1130\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lady Lifers at SCI Muncy sing, \u201cThis Is Not My Home\u201d at TEDx in 2014.<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-credit\">COURTESY OF ELLEN MELCHIONDO AND\u00a0NAOMI BLOUNT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also means an end to the harsh sentencing practice known as life without the possibility of parole (LWOP). In an August 26\u00a0interview with MSNBC, formerly incarcerated activist Darren Mack described LWOP as \u201cdeath by incarceration,\u201d explaining, \u201cYou will not leave prison until you die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noted political scientist and author Marie Gottschalk\u00a0has called\u00a0life without parole \u201cdeath in slow motion.\u201d Pope Francis\u00a0deemed it\u00a0\u201ca death penalty in disguise.\u201d Kenneth Hartman, who served more than 37 years in prison before California governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence, was the first to\u00a0label it\u00a0\u201cthe other death penalty.\u201d When he was still behind bars, Hartman\u00a0wrote\u00a0for The Marshall Project that life without parole is \u201cthe sense of being dead while you\u2019re still alive, the feeling of being dumped into a deep well struggling to tread water until, some 40 or 50 years later, you drown.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_wrapper\">\n<div id=\"banner-247291\" class=\"banner subscribe-banner banner-247291 bottom vert custom-banners-theme-default_style\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_inner\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Across the country, activists inside and outside prison are making headway in organizing to end this harsh sentencing practice. They say more and more people are realizing that the\u00a0US is an outlier in extreme sentencing. Jonathan Simon,\u00a0writing in\u00a0<em>Life Without Parole: America\u2019s New Death Penalty<\/em>\u00a0by Charles Ogletree and Austin Serat, Jr., explains that the United States, unlike Europe, rejects the role of \u201cdignity\u201d in its sentencing practices. Joseph Dole, currently serving life without parole at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, and the author of\u00a0numerous articles\u00a0(several\u00a0published in Truthout) discussed progress against harsh sentencing in a letter: \u201cThere has finally been an acknowledgment that long sentences are the main driver of mass incarceration, that people age out of crime and are thus less of a threat when they are older, and that longer sentences don\u2019t deter or reduce crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest at Truthout.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTHOUT By Jean Troustine When incarcerated people in 17 states initiated a 19-day prison strike last month, one of their\u00a010 demands\u00a0was that all \u201cimprisoned humans have [the] possibility of rehabilitation and parole.\u201d This includes the opportunity for early release, allowing prisoners both to exit before the end of their sentence and to serve their remaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TRUTHOUT By Jean Troustine When incarcerated people in 17 states initiated a 19-day prison strike last month, one of their\u00a010 demands\u00a0was that all \u201cimprisoned humans have [the] possibility of rehabilitation and parole.\u201d This includes the opportunity for early release, allowing prisoners both to exit before the end of their sentence and to serve their remaining [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Free Joe Hunt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-17T16:28:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-18T18:25:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Truthout-prison.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"708\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Linda J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Linda J\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\",\"name\":\"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-17T16:28:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-18T18:25:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c52a3b725a03ac2bfe9795be3ea60f0c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/\",\"name\":\"Free Joe Hunt\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c52a3b725a03ac2bfe9795be3ea60f0c\",\"name\":\"Linda J\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt","og_description":"TRUTHOUT By Jean Troustine When incarcerated people in 17 states initiated a 19-day prison strike last month, one of their\u00a010 demands\u00a0was that all \u201cimprisoned humans have [the] possibility of rehabilitation and parole.\u201d This includes the opportunity for early release, allowing prisoners both to exit before the end of their sentence and to serve their remaining [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/","og_site_name":"Free Joe Hunt","article_published_time":"2018-09-17T16:28:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-09-18T18:25:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":708,"url":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Truthout-prison.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Linda J","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Linda J","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/","url":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/","name":"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole - Free Joe Hunt","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-09-17T16:28:29+00:00","dateModified":"2018-09-18T18:25:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c52a3b725a03ac2bfe9795be3ea60f0c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/2018\/09\/17\/fighting-to-end-the-other-death-sentence-life-without-parole\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/","name":"Free Joe Hunt","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c52a3b725a03ac2bfe9795be3ea60f0c","name":"Linda J"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freejoehunt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}