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Eric Alexander

Eric Alexander is youth justice advocate at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, and founder of the Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network.

We Can Hold Youths Accountable Without Life Without Parole

(This article is cross-posted from the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange blog) When I was 17, I accepted a plea agreement and 25-year prison sentence to avoid the likelihood of spending the rest of my life in prison. I had been involved in the death of another person. Prosecutors initially charged me with first-degree murder and aggravated robbery […]