- The US now has the highest number of inmates serving life sentences in its history. One out of every nine inmates is serving a life sentence.
The Sentencing Project, Research and Advocacy for Reform, “Life Goes On: The Historic Rise in Life Sentences in America,” September 2013
- In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.
Miller v. Alabama
- The European Court Of Human Rights ruled in 2013 that Life Without the Possibility of Parole is inhuman and degrading stating that no prisoner should be deprived of any real hope of release.
Vinter and Others v. The United Kingdom, The Grand Chamber held that whole life sentences with no possibility of review and no prospect of release were inhuman and degrading treatment in breach of Article
- The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation’s prisons or jails.
The Sentencing Project, 2013
- Under the Governor’s proposed spending plan for 2014-15, California is expected to spend more than $62,000 on each prison inmate.
California Budget Project, February 2014 (The CBP uses independent fiscal and policy analysis with funding provided by the Ford Foundation and the Rosenberg Foundation.)
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