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Video Resources

• Jailed for Life for Stealing a $159 Jacket? 3,200 Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Crimes, Democracy Now 
  A shocking new study by the American Civil Liberties Union has found that more than 3,200 people nationwide are serving life terms without parole for nonviolent offenses.
  (28:19 video clip) http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/15/jailed_for_life_for_stealing_a

• Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice, TedTalks 
  (23:37 video clip)
  https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice

• Unlocking Justice: The Sentencing Project Highlights the Red Hook Community Justice Center
  (9:12 video clip) In promoting the justice center as a model of reform, the video, which is excerpted here, emphasizes the center's use of drug, mental health, and trauma-focused treatment as alternatives to incarceration, as well as its collaborative approach to community justice
  http://www.courtinnovation.org/research/unlocking-justice-sentencing-project-highlights-red-hook-community-justice-center

• Roper v. Simmons (2005) SCOTUS Argument and Opinion Audio (Downloadable), Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Death Penalty
  http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2002/2002_01_1757

• Sentencing and Guidelines: New Amendments for 2014, United States Courts, Federal Judicial Center
  (54:46 video clip) Features senior members of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's training staff describing the amendments made to the sentencing guidelines. Amendments relating to alternatives to incarceration, specific offender characteristics, criminal history calculations, etc .
  https://youtu.be/J0ns3df28g0?list=PL4bcxoLSIaXcsFPehKYaifpR0bFAIr9wW 

• Victims Rights Every Victim. Every Time, Department of Justice
  (5:33 video clip) An introductory video on protecting the rights of victims.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV9zTN8Jg64
   

Podcast Resources

• Author Matthew Lippman presents a podcast on Chapter 3: Punishment and Sentencing. 
  http://traffic.libsyn.com/sagepodcast/ch3.mp3