The Sentencing Project · United States · 2022
Documents the explosion of US life-without-parole (LWOP) sentences since the 1980s. More than 56,000 people are serving LWOP, with the elderly and infirm population growing rapidly while posing minimal public safety risk. Argues that 'compassionate release' and parole-eligibility reforms could safely return thousands.
Same publisher and overlapping topics where possible.
decarceration · pre-trial-detention · data-transparency
overcrowding · decarceration
data-transparency · pre-trial-detention · decarceration
overcrowding · pre-trial-detention · women-prisoners
drug-policy · alternatives · health-in-prison
death-penalty-abolition · drug-policy