At least 3,278 people in the United States, a majority of them black, are serving life in prison for nonviolent convictions in a system where mandatory minimum laws and racial disparities shape sentencing, a report released Wednesday by the ACLU reveals. Entitled A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses, the study draws on
‘A Living Death’: Thousands Serving Life In Prison For Nonviolent Offenses
ACLU report finds troubling racial trends for those locked up under mandatory minimum laws.