This petition was created to provide you a platform to send your Michigan State Representative and Senator an email message expressing support for passage of House Bills 4160-4164 and Senate Bills 119-123 which were introduced with bipartisan support. The platform will automatically identify the correct Representative and Senator to send your message to based on your zip code.

If passed, the bills would end life without parole (LWOP) sentences for justice-involved Michigan children. Below is the text of the message you will be sending your legislator when signing the petition which offers common sense reasons for the proposed sentencing reforms.

Please share this petition widely in your social media network and invite others to do the same so we can help make Michigan the twenty-sixth state to end the deplorable practice of sentencing people to die in prison for tragic mistakes they made when they were children in the eyes of the law.

To view a press statement from the Senate bills' lead sponsor and learn additional information about the bills you can visit http://bit.ly/IRWIN-JLWOP2023 The information is applicable to both the House and Senate bills since they share the same language.

Efrén Paredes Jr. (he/him/el)
Founder
Support Michigan Prison Reform
http://fb.com/groups/MichPR
MiPrisonReform@gmail.com

Michigan Poor People's Campaign, Co-Chair
Presente.org, Co-Founder
Michigan Collaborative to End Mass
Incarceration (MI-CEMI), Member
Peace Education Center of Greater Lansing, Member