Consequences of Over 200,000 People Serving Life in U.S. Prisons
WEBDec 5, 2023 · More than 200,000 people are serving life sentences in U.S. prisons today, and most of them are locked in state correctional facilities. The vast majority of lifers are people of color, about 30% are people age 55 and …
How People Sentenced to Life in Prison Made Their Case for …
WEBAug 15, 2023 · At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other...
Boyfriend of a Navajo woman is sentenced to life in prison in her ...
WEBSep 24, 2024 · PHOENIX (AP) — After family members of a slain Navajo woman described their grief in a federal courtroom, the judge on Monday sentenced her boyfriend to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in a case that became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women. Five years after Jaime Yazzie …
What it's like serving a life sentence in prison with no chance of ...
WEBOct 1, 2022 · Louisiana's prisons today hold thousands of people with life sentences and no possibility of parole. 73% of all inmates serving life sentences at Angola are Black. Many are older than 50.
Incarcerated People With Life Sentences Get a Chance to Tell ... - NPR
WEBSep 22, 2022 · More than 55,000 people in the U.S. are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to research from The Sentencing Project. Behind bars, they are largely unseen and...
Supreme Court Rejects Restrictions On Life Without Parole For …
WEBApr 22, 2021 · The U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative majority made a U-turn on Thursday, ruling by a 6-3 vote, that a judge need not make a finding of "permanent incorrigibility" before sentencing a juvenile...
Life-without-parole sentences are exploding. But America's …
WEBMay 22, 2021 · Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, an increase of 66 percent since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit...
Court ruling could mean freedom for hundreds serving life …
WEBJan 18, 2024 · A 2022 ruling that bars automatic life sentences for people who were 18 at the time of a murder can be applied retroactively to prisoners who are already in custody, including some who have been locked up for decades, the court said.
Court Ruling Could Mean Freedom for Hundreds Serving Life …
WEBJan 18, 2024 · A 2022 ruling that bars automatic life sentences for people who were 18 at the time of a murder can be applied retroactively to prisoners who are already in custody, including some who have...
Supreme Court ruling will make it easier to sentence juveniles to life ...
WEBApr 22, 2021 · The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the sentence of life without parole for a juvenile offender in a 6-3 decision, rejecting arguments that such sentences should have additional limits.