• Hello everybody!

This petition is concerning Connecticuts Senate Bill No. 952     File No. 508.     Cal. No. 510

The contents of the Senate bill No.952 addresses parole eligibility for individuals serving a lengthy sentence for a crime committed before the individuals reach the age of 21. 

The whole premise of this petition is to address a specific cut out time within a bill that already exists!  The carve out time does not allow all juvenile offenders under the age of 21 years old with lengthy sentences  the RIGHT to be LOOKED AT at as a POTENTIAL paroles. We are looking at reform here ! 

The senate bill No. 952 amendment expresses that ONLY individuals UNDER 21 who have committed crimes on or after October 1,1990 to on or before October 1,2005 will be eligible for parole as a juvenile offender. 

THIS FIXED TIME PERIOD of October 1,1990 to October 1,2005 is a distinct carve out which leaves many juveniles ineligible for POTENTIAL parole.

Therefore, any juvenile individual under the age of 21 who committed their crime AFTER October 1,2005 would not be given the equal opportunity at a chance of parole at 60% of their sentence. It is utterly unacceptable that the juveniles outside of the carved out time period do not have the same chance at rehabilitation.

Programs that are meant to reform are basically non existent. That’s why the US has a recidivism rate of about 80%. Whereas Canada by contrast operates a rehabilitative prison system, this is why they enjoy a recidivism rate of about 30%. 

A system that does not adopt the proposal of rehabilitation & integration of appropriate juvenile offenders AFTER October 2005 is unethical. 
This has caused and will continue to cause unnecessary taxing on the system, increase of recidivism & increase in crime rate.

Connecticut has an incarceration rate of 326 per hundred thousand people meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people then almost any Democratic country on earth! 

This petition was started to gain as many signature as possible in hopes that elective officials would take notice.
We support prison reform as well as equality for all juveniles that potentially could be deemed eligible for parole. NOT just the ones that fit into a carved out time slot!! 

Please sign!!