Virginia’s Move To End Capital Punishment Has A Major Flaw
Any day now, with Governor Ralph Northam’s signature, Virginia will eliminate the death penalty. The news is cause for celebration. Since 1976, Virginia has
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#FreeHer Campaign Wants Clemency For 100 Women In Biden’s First 100 Days
More than 200,000 women and girls are incarcerated in this country — 10,000 of them in federal prisons — and Danielle Metz used
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I Made A Serious Mistake As Governor Of Maryland. We Need Parole Reform.
It’s never easy to admit you made a mistake. Twenty-five years ago, I made a serious mistake. At the start of my two
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Study: Two-Thirds Of Prisoners Serving Life Sentences Are People Of Color
More than two thirds of the roughly 203,000 prisoners serving life sentences in the United States are people of color, according to a
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Two Cop-Killers Freed By Illinois Parole Board After Decades In Prison
Foxx will no longer make recommendations to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on parole. Foxx called the practice a “relic” of the past
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Over 200,000 People Are Serving Life In U.S. Prisons. These Are The Consequences.
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
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Despite Justice Reform, Number Of Inmates Serving Life Still Rising
About 203,000 Americans are currently set to die behind bars. In 1970, there were less than 200,000 people in America’s entire prison system.
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No End In Sight: America’s Enduring Reliance On Life Imprisonment
Before America’s era of mass incarceration took hold in the early 1970s, the number of individuals in prison was less than 200,000. Today,
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