Sentencing Project Releases Report on Life Without Parole Sentences

In "Throwing Away the Key: The Expansion of Life Without Parole Sentences in the United States," appearing in the current issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Ashley Nellis describes the growing use of life imprisonment in recent decades. She argues that the growing use of life without parole represents a lack of confidence that persons who commit serious crimes can mature out of their criminal behavior and that too often this results in unnecessarily lengthy incarceration.
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