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Back to Episodes10 Years After Being Incarcerated at the Age of 14 - A Conversation With Jamie Silvonek
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Jamie Silvonek has been incarcerated since the age of 14. She is now 24 having pled guilty to plotting to kill her mother with her 21 year old boyfriend. She was sentenced to 35 years to Life. She was charged as an adult. The Juvenile Law Center has represented her since her conviction. A petition for commutation has been filed on her behalf to the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. Jamie is a published author, a college student and a dog handler with Canine Connection.
To learn more about the Juvenile Law Center, visist https://jlc.org/
Read the press release about Jamie’s commutation petition, which links to the commutation packet and the op-ed she published in the Morning Call. https://jlc.org/news/juvenile-law-center-files-commutation-petition-behalf-jamie-silvonek
Kids for Cash: https://jlc.org/luzerne-kids-cash-scandal
Juvenile Life without Parole: https://jlc.org/issues/juvenile-life-without-parole
This podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.