Letter to Pennsylvania Committee on the Judiciary in Support of Bill to Consider Adolescent Brain Development in Sentencing for People Under Age 25
HB 1689 would require consideration of adolescent brain development in findings of culpability and in sentencing for young people who were under the age of 25 at the time of the alleged offense.
Related to: Youth Justice
Director of Youth Justice Josh Rovner submitted a letter on behalf of The Sentencing Project to Pennsylvania’s House Judiciary Committee in support of HB 1689. HB 1689 would require consideration of adolescent brain development in findings of culpability and in sentencing for young people who were under the age of 25 at the time of the alleged offense. This bill, if passed, requires judges to consider the well-documented research and jurisprudence on brain development through late adolescence when considering a young person’s case.
Read the full letter here.
