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LA Times Editorial: All the Sara Kruzans deserve a chance

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

LA Times Editorial: All the Sara Kruzans deserve a chance The woman who killed her pimp as a teen but turned her life around in prison was granted clemency. A bill in the state Senate would allow similar leniency for juvenile offenders. January 4, 2011 The controversial decision to shorten Esteban Nuñez's prison sentence has obscured a more important commutation that outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger granted a young woman who has fought to turn her life around from its almost unbelievably bad beginning. Sara Kruzan had been abused physically and sexually for most of her young life before she was gang raped, then pushed into a life of prostitution at age 13 by the neighborhood pimp. When she was 16, she robbed and killed the man, a crime for which she was sentenced to life in prison without parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 04, 2011 (boomark / email).