Elizabeth Calvin

Senior Advocate, Human Rights Watch

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Senior Advocate in the Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles. She is head of a coalition to get a bill passed that would enable 265 cases in CA to be reviewed, four of which involve kids who did not commit murder.

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The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that life without parole for juveniles is unconstitutional—if they did not kill anyone. Four inmates in California fit the bill.

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