Special Collection: Juvenile Parole

Young people in blue and green clothes sit at desks in a classroom setting, holding books, facing away from the camera.

Classroom in McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 2006

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This collection includes cases challenging parole processes and procedures for people incarcerated for crimes committed as youth.

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Cases (13)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Hawkins v. New York State Dept. of Corrections & Community Supervision

No. 0011–15 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2015

Closed Date: 2016

This is a case about whether a parole board properly denied parole to an individual who was convicted as a juvenile and sentenced in New York to a term of 22-years-to-life. At the time of the hearing…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Moore v. Gwathney

2:23-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 9, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 9, 2023, two individuals serving life with parole sentences for crimes committed as youth in Alabama brought this lawsuit against officials of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole [the "B…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Howard v. Coonrod

6:21-cv-00062 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2021

Case Ongoing

This is a challenge to Florida's parole procedures for people sentenced in the state to life with parole for crimes committed under the age of 18. On January 8, 2021, the four named plaintiffs fil…

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Heredia v. Landreman

3:19-cv-00338 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 30, 2019

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2022

This is a case challenging Wisconsin's application of life-with-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. On April 30, 2019, the plaintiffs, individuals who were sentenced to life with the possibility…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Bonilla v. Iowa Board of Parole

No. CVCV052692 | Iowa state trial court

Filed Date: July 9, 2018

Closed Date: June 28, 2019

This is a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of Iowa's parole processes and procedures for a person serving a life sentence for a crime committed under the age of 18. Petitioner in this lawsuit was co…

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Flores v. Stanford

7:18-cv-02468 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 20, 2018, several people serving indeterminate sentences of a term of years to life with the possibility of parole in New York for crimes committed under age 18 filed this putative class act…

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People v. Stovall

No. 92-0334-01 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: June 29, 2017

Closed Date: 2022

This action arose from a successive motion for relief for judgment filed by the defendant in this criminal case on June 29, 2017 in Michigan state trial court (Third Circuit Court, case no. 92-0334-0…

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Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Closed Date: Sept. 23, 2022

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named pla…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative v. Hogan

1:16-cv-01021 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: April 6, 2016

Case Ongoing

On April 6, 2016, the Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative, a grassroots membership organization dedicated to advocating for individuals serving long-term prison sentences, and three juveniles sen…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Greiman v. Hodges

4:13-cv-00510 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 2013

Closed Date: Oct. 4, 2017

On November 22, 2013, a man that had been in custody for twenty-five years for a crime committed when he was sixteen filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. T…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Diatchenko v. District Attorney for Suffolk Dist.

SJC-11453 | Massachusetts state supreme court

Filed Date: March 19, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On March 19, 2013, petitioner filed this action in Massachusetts county court, challenging the constitutionality of the sentencing scheme under which he received a mandatory life without parole sente…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Hill v. Snyder

2:10-cv-14568 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Nov. 17, 2010

Closed Date: Nov. 17, 2020

This is a lawsuit challenging mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles in Michigan.On November 17, 2010, juvenile prisoners filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the…

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)

Hayden v. Keller

5:10-ct-03123 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: July 15, 2010

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2019

On July 15, 2010, a person serving a life sentence for crimes committed as a juvenile filed this lawsuit on behalf of himself against the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission…