After several months of discussions, city agencies have begun nailing down funding agreements so Philadelphia’s criminal justice system can take the next step in resentencing hundreds of inmates given unconstitutional life sentences as juveniles.
According to Benjamin Lerner, deputy managing director for criminal justice, the city has agreed to cover expenses that the Defender Association of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will incur over the next year as they begin to resentence nearly 300 people given life sentences as juveniles. Those sentences were deemed unconstitutional under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
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