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    New Illinois law gives additional hope to youngest felons facing life in prison

    by Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune Feb 23, 2023 5 minutes
    Nelson Morris, a development manager at Restore Justice, a criminal justice reform group, was arrested in 1991 when he was 17 for a double murder and was released from prison in 2020.

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nelson Morris was only 17 when he was arrested for a double murder that eventually doomed him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no chance of parole.

    “When you’re that age ... you can never feel safe because you’re around extremely violent circumstances,” said Morris, now 48. “There’s nothing positive in prison, so you build bonds with people that’s in similar situations with you.”

    More than 20 years into his incarceration, Morris received a glimmer of hope from various court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found a 14-year-old’s life sentence in another state to be unconstitutional.

    Based on that ruling, Morris was able to be resentenced, and ultimately was released from prison in August 2020 after being locked up for close to three decades.

    Prison sentences that give inmates convicted at a young age no

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