The Center For Life
Without Parole Studies

ATTENTION CALIFORNIA LWOP PRISONERS!

The Center for Life Without Parole Studies offers low-cost and limited pro-bono commutation application preparation for California LWOP prisoners.

Family/friends of prisoners in need of our services can click here to print this

questionnaire and mail it to your loved ones. This will help expedite the evaluation of your case.

For more information and to tell us about your situation, please write to:

The Center for Life Without Parole Studies

2851 West Avenue L # 302

Lancaster, CA 93536

Please note that while we will do our best to help as many people as possible, our resources are limited and we cannot accept every case.

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The Center for Life Without Parole Studies

Working to abolish this cruel and inhumane sentence nationwide.

2851 West Avenue L # 302

Lancaster, CA 93536

Phone: (661) 466-7007

Fax: (661) 793-6601

info@lwopstudies.org

Our Goals:

1) To eliminate the use of LWOP sentences in the United States and ensure that all prisoners currently serving LWOP have a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate their fitness for release; and

2) To end the use of "de facto LWOP" (sentences that exceed the human lifespan), and ensure that all prisoners currently serving such sentences have a meaningful opportunity for consideration for release.

3) To help California LWOP prisoners with low-cost and pro-bono legal services.

The Vermont Initiative

ATTENTION VERMONT LWOP PRISONERS!

The Center for Life Without Parole Studies is collaborating with Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform (VCJR) to end life without parole sentences in Vermont. For the past year, Center Founder and CEO Susan Lawrence has been working closely with VCJR Executive Director Tom Dalton and VCJR Intern/UVM Student/Human Rights Activist Skyler Nash on current and projected new legislation to end LWOP in the state.

This leadership team has been instrumental in the introduction of H.382 by Representative Brian Cina and co-sponsored by Representative Barbara Rachelson, and is working closely with Senator Dick Sears for additional legistation to be introduced in 2020. In July 2019, Susan provided testimony on LWOP for the Vermont Justice Oversight Committee, and will be traveling to Vermont again on November 18, 2019 to attend legislator meetings with Tom and Skyler and conduct a presentation on LWOP with them at the Vermont Justice Coalition meeting. (Please put the photo from the State House in here.)

Vermont is uniquely positioned to become the first state to affirmatively end LWOP sentences for adults as well as juveniles, taking a strong stand against this human rights violation. Existing progressive criminal justice policies (such as voting rights for incarcerated persons, compassionate release provisions for terminally ill prisoners, and lack of felony murder statutes), as well as its small number of LWOP prisoners (fifteen), make Vermont the ideal state in which to begin this much needed reform.

Restorative justice is the law of the land in Vermont. LWOP is the antithesis of restoration. Join with us to ensure all people inside prison have hope for the opportunity to one day present their case to the parole board and demonstrate their fitness for release.