10 Years After Being Incarcerated at the Age of 14 - A Conversation With Jamie Silvonek

About this episode

Jamie Silvonek discusses her experience of being incarcerated since the age of 14 and her ongoing fight for commutation.

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.

People in this episode

Host: Harriet Hendel

Guest: Jamie Silvonek

Topics covered

• juvenile justice
• incarceration
• commutation
• mental health
• youth crime

Keywords

• incarceration
• juvenile justice
• commutation petition
• Juvenile Law Center
• youth crime

Sponsors

Innocence Project of Florida

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Juvenile Law Center

Books & works: Morning Call

Places: Pennsylvania

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