Thread by @Taniel

BIG news from Oregon: Gov. Brown just signed into law a bill that abolishes life without parole sentences for minors,

AND it eliminates automatic charging of minors as adults,

AND it creates new opportunities for early release for people who were sentenced while minors

This is big reform, & it's hard to describe what a tight-rope it had to walk. It survived lobbying from the Oregon District Attorneys Association (surprise, surprise). It needed a supermajority to pass -- & it got it (bipartisan votes) without a vote to spare in upper-chamber.

As always, check out @TheAppeal's interactive tracker of legislative movement on criminal justice reform! (This isn't on it yet, but soon enough.) It has plenty on youth justice.

appealpolitics.org/legislative-ro…