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3 days ago · Take Trump’s Plan to Jail the Supreme Court’s Critics Seriously The right to criticize the powerful is a cornerstone of democracy. In Trump’s America, it’s cause for a prison sentence.
Jun 4, 2019 · The 1994 federal crime bill that created tough new criminal sentences and incentivized states to build more prisons and pass truth-in-sentencing laws is getting new scrutiny during this 2020 election cycle.
Feb 15, 2024 · The vast majority of people who are sentenced under the three strikes law are homeless and destitute and addicts and didn’t have intact families or communities to begin with, 15, 20 years ago, and now they’ve been in prison for this time, and the situation has only gotten desperately worse.
Mar 11, 2019 · Black men in America receive 19.1% longer sentences than white men for similar crimes, according a recent US Sentencing Commission report.
May 26, 2019 · Beginning in the 1970s, the United States waged a war on drugs which lead to mass incarceration. Significantly, mass incarceration shifted the prison demographic profile—from over 70% White in 1950 to nearly 70% Black and Latino by 1989 (Wacquant, 2001).
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which the convicted criminal is to remain in prison for the rest of their natural life (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term). Crimes that result in life imprisonment are extremely serious and usually violent.
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Jan 10, 2022 · January 11 marks 20 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay, the infamous US prison located in Cuba that critics say allows detainees to be held indefinitely outside of normal laws or judicial...
