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Number of Life Terms Hits Record

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Number of Life Terms Hits Record California has the largest prison system in the United States, with 170,000 inmates and the most serving life terms, 34,164. By SOLOMON MOORE Published: July 22, 2009 NY Times CORONA, Calif. ? Mary Thompson, an inmate at the California Institution for Women here, was convicted of two felonies for a robbery spree in which she threatened victims with a knife. Her third felony under California?s three-strikes law was the theft of three tracksuits to pay for her crack cocaine habit in 1982. Mary Thompson at the California Institution for Women: life term after three felony convictions. Like one out of five prisoners in California, and nearly 10 percent of all prisoners nationally in 2008, Ms. Thompson is serving a life sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 23, 2009 (boomark / email).