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David Sloane
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
Supporting Mental Health in California's prisons.
After many years of providing workshops, programs and information to lifers, Life Support Alliance, like the rest of lifer-world, was...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
A WEEK IN THE LIFE
The last couple of weeks have been especially busy—travel, workshops, correspondence homework to review, never-ending letters, calls and...
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David Sloane
- Oct 16, 2022
- 3 min
new Program Debut!
Hello everyone, David here. Just a quick report on just one of the things we've been doing lately. In the course of all that we do, we...
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David Sloane
- Oct 8, 2022
- 4 min
Meet Abel R.
Meet Abel.
"Dear Life Support Alliance..."
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Oct 7, 2022
- 5 min
LOCKED UP! FOR REAL!!
When I talk with people about what we do, going into prisons to work with the men and women who are ‘residents’ there, I frequently am...
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David Sloane
- Sep 18, 2022
- 4 min
From Pelican Bay to the American River!!
On August 16th I was released on parole...
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David Sloane
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Jennifer Shaffer – 2022
Hello everyone, David here with some errant thoughts… It’s September 9th, 2022, 3 days after my birthday. We’re fast approaching our...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Sep 3, 2022
- 2 min
SMILE! YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA!
Every month for the last 12 years I have attended the (usually) 2-day business meeting of the BPH board—the Executive Board Meeting. ...
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David Sloane
- Jul 15, 2022
- 4 min
LSA Seminars a great success!!
Our First-In-A-Long-Time Lifer Family Seminar was held on June 18th just weeks ago in Sacramento. It's been a long time but despite...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
Lifer's Family Seminars!!
FINALLY!! After 2-years of CoVid delay, we're able to hold in-person family seminars again! Our first seminar in two years detailed...
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LRSheppardLaw
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
AB333, relief from gang enhancements
A brief blog about AB333, which created Penal Code 1109, and revised Penal Code 186.22: This bill enacted laws that changes the rules for...
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LRSheppardLaw
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
SB483 - GUARANTEED RESENTENCING for those who qualify
SB483 is a bill that was signed into law in 2021, enacting changes to Penal Codes 1171, and 1171.1 (as of 7/1/22, renamed Penal Codes...
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LRSheppardLaw
- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
About SB81 (Penal Code 1385)
SB81 was just signed into law. You can read the text of the new law HERE. It will go into effect on January 1, 2022. This law amends...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
This one was personal
I’m a prisoner advocate. I make no excuses for that sometimes unpopular slot, because I believe in what we do. Yes, I’ve been asked many...
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LRSheppardLaw
- Aug 24, 2021
- 8 min
Resentencing Primer - updated
See below: I made a lot of edits, updated as current in April 2022 I get a lot of questions about resentencing. How to do it, who...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
my "agenda"
These are rough and divisive times. For over a decade I’ve promised to tell lifers and their families the straight story, no...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- May 12, 2021
- 6 min
That was the year that was
The world will remember 2020 as the year of CoVid, and while certainly CoVid had a major impact on activities at Life Support Alliance, a...
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Vanessa Nelson-Sloane
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
ALL PSYCHS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
First, full disclosure. I’m not an attorney. Don’t even play one on TV. But I do know a thing or two (or 10 or 20) about parole...
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