There’s no question: Our legal system loves long prison sentences. From 2000 to 2019, the number of people serving sentences of 10 years or longer exploded from 587,000 to 773,000, according to a new ...
Officer Jimmy Bliatout closes a gate after a prisoner enters the yard at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Officer Jimmy Bliatout closes a gate after a prisoner enters ...
This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more and longer prison sentences. Unfortunately, ...
This time of year, aspiring elected officials insist that we must get tough on crime to keep us safe. “Getting tough” almost always includes imposing more and longer prison sentences. Unfortunately, ...
For people, myself included, who are serving long prison sentences in New York, years pass, circumstances change, and lives take on dimensions that were not discernable at the time of sentencing. Yet ...
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. When a 2016 ...
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