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Potent new report on life sentences from The Sentencing Project

By Douglas A. Berman

I just received this e-mail telling me about an important new report just released by The Sentencing Project: A new report released by The Sentencing Project finds a record 140,610 individuals are now serving life sentences in state and federal prisons, 6,807 of whom were juveniles at the time of the crime. In addition, 29% of persons serving a life sentence (41,095) have no possibility of parole, and 1,755 were juveniles at the time of the crime. No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences in America represents the first nationwide collection of life sentence data documenting race, ethnicity and gender. The report's findings reveal overwhelming racial and ethnic disparities in the allocation of life sentences: 66% of all persons sentenced to life are non-white, and 77% of juveniles serving life sentences are non-white...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).