Dear John, I’m pleased to introduce our new Campaign to End Life Imprisonment Fellow, Warren Allen! Warren will help support state and local advocates challenging the nation's extreme sentencing laws. His priorities will include advocating to end life imprisonment for youth, encouraging restorative justice methods, promoting “second look” opportunities and ending the practice of sentencing people to death by incarceration. Prior to joining The Sentencing Project, Warren served over two decades in federal prison where he acquired his high school diploma and received college credits from the Georgetown Scholars Program. During his incarceration, he was an influential leader in the Young Men Emerging mentoring program and created a cognitive thinking program called Hard Lessons, which promoted appropriate solutions to problem solving. Warren is a recipient of a second chance from Washington, DC’s Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) that allowed a court to grant his early release from a 35-year to life prison sentence. The Sentencing Project is partnering with BreakFree Education in Washington, DC to support intensive, on-the-job training fellowships for individuals who return home after receiving a sentence reduction under IRAA and wish to develop careers in advocacy and public policy reform. It is critical to our mission at The Sentencing Project to center the voices and experiences of those directly affected by mass incarceration in all aspects of our work. I am proud to work with and learn from Warren as we continue our fight for a more equitable and humane legal system. Onwards! Amy |
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