Our Mission
Alternative Sentencing & Reentry Solutions, our mission is to provide unique forensic social work services that offer alternatives to the excess sentencing of youths, reduce sentencing, and promote justice.
ASRS aim is to counterbalance the negative stereotypes and exploitation that former youth face, by providing affirmative and objective evidence of present and future successful habilitation/rehabilitation that may not have been evident during their youthful transitory state. ASRS empower teams of consultants and expert witnesses comprised of former adolescents who had been judged as adults and subjected to extreme sentences, lending credibility and unique insight to our mission. By working towards a more fair and just society, ASRS is dedicated to promoting the habilitation/rehabilitation and reintegration of marginalized individuals and changing negative perceptions for future generations.
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ASRS strive to be a leading social impact organization that significantly furthers the common good and welfare of the whole community. By addressing the social determinants of health, we aim to improve access to healthcare, secure stable housing, enhance employment opportunities, and promote entrepreneurship and education post prison. Through our ethical, compassionate, and effective solutions, we empower individuals through harnessing the experiences of team members who were once sentenced to death by incarceration as children to engage with at-risk youth, and contribute to positive, lasting changes in our communities.
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Expert Witnesses & Consultants

Edward Sanders
Founder
ASRS, under the leadership of Edward Sanders, aims to promote fair sentencing practices for youth and ensure that individuals who have been incarcerated since childhood receive the necessary support for successful reentry, ultimately reducing recidivism rates in communities through your funding of attorney defense interns inclusive of former children with lived experiences, and peer reentry specialists.
James Windell
Advisor
A former juvenile psychologist, who teaches criminal justice at Oakland University and Wayne State University. Windell authorizes 38 books, including Sentencing Youth to Life in Prison with co-author Kathi Milliken-Boyd. Windell is assisting with a framework utilizing former Juvenile Lifers Without Parole (JLWOP), as consultants and expert witnesses with trial court resentencing hearings of incarcerated JLWOP and other adolescents serving extreme sentences.



