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Racial Disparities and Youth Sentencing Mark U.S. Life Sentencing Practices

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The Sentencing Project, an advocacy organization promoting humane responses to crime, has released its report, “A Matter of Life: The Scope and Impact of Life and Long-Term Imprisonment in the United States.” The report provides a detailed analysis of life sentences, revealing that nearly 200,000 people—one in six […]

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