Second Look Network
The Second Look Network serves, connects, and empowers legal advocates across the country to bring people serving excessive and unfair prison sentences home.
The Second Look Network is a coalition of 70 organizations and over 150 attorneys and post-sentence advocates across the country working on behalf of incarcerated individuals seeking relief from lengthy or unfair sentences, beyond the context of wrongful conviction or innocence claims.
Join the Network
The Network is a closed community and provides a safe and confidential space for collaboration, training, support, and encouragement.
Benefits to joining the Second Look Network
- Attend various collaboration and training opportunities, both virtual and in-person.
- Private and confidential access to a communications and document-management platform for sharing information and documents, and providing support.
- Access to Second Look resource materials and brief bank.
- Connect SLN Members to recommended experts and specialists to enhance and bolster litigation and mitigation presentations.
- Connect members to local and national policy efforts to support the expansion and implementation of second look mechanisms in their area of practice.
- Communications and media support to coordinate the member’s individual efforts with the national effort.
- Collect and analyze data of cases handled by SLN Members in order to both strengthen network efforts and inform the advocacy community and others of strategic outcomes.
- Access to monthly newsletters and tool kits.
Criteria
Interested in joining the Second Look Network? Download the membership criteria to learn more.
Application Process
Who We Are
Leyda Pereyra, Second Look Network Program Manager
Leyda provides programmatic management and support to a coalition of Second Look advocates and litigators across the country, who are representing or supporting individuals seeking relief from extreme prison sentences.
Becky Feldman, Second Look Network Director
Becky Feldman provides support to a coalition of Second Look advocates and litigators across the country, who are representing or supporting individuals seeking relief from extreme prison sentences. Her priorities include building a Second Look Network that will connect advocates to litigation, legislative, and communications support materials.
Who We Are
Becky Feldman, Second Look Network Director
Becky Feldman provides support to a coalition of Second Look advocates and litigators across the country, who are representing or supporting individuals seeking relief from extreme prison sentences. Her priorities include building a Second Look Network that will connect advocates to litigation, legislative, and communications support materials.
Leyda Pereyra, Second Look Network Program Manager
Leyda provides programmatic management and support to a coalition of Second Look advocates and litigators across the country, who are representing or supporting individuals seeking relief from extreme prison sentences.
Vision Statements
- Harnessing our Collective Wisdom. We believe in the power of community and we will harness the collective wisdom of advocates across the country to more effectively fight for the release of incarcerated persons serving unjust sentences.
- Humanity & Dignity for All. To create a more informed community, through our skills of advocacy and storytelling, that values the humanity and dignity of all people who are incarcerated, regardless of the nature of their conviction.
- Spaces for Rehabilitation & Redemption. Our current criminal justice system was not set up to provide enough effective opportunities for incarcerated persons to demonstrate their rehabilitation and potential. We will work to create and expand those spaces through our advocacy.
Second Look Network Advisory Board
- Kara Gotsch, The Sentencing Project
- Anthony Jones, Illinois Prison Project
- Tyra Patterson, Ohio Justice & Policy Center
- Mary Price, FAMM
- Chiquisha Robinson, Public Defender System
- Michael Romano, Stanford Law Three Strikes Project
- David Singleton, Ohio Justice & Policy Center
- Jennifer Soble, Illinois Prison Project
- Steve Zeidman, CUNY Law, Director of Criminal Defense Clinic
Contact Us
To learn more about the benefits of the Second Look Network and the membership application process, please email secondlook@sentencingproject.org.
Featured Resources
A Second Look at Injustice
Lawmakers and prosecutors have begun pursuing criminal justice reforms that reflect a key fact: ending mass incarceration and tackling its racial disparities require taking a second look at long sentences.
