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| Number of US Prisoners in for Life Climbs to New High |
| By newsmax.com |
| Published: 09/19/2013 |
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The number of prisoners serving life terms in the United States has more than quadrupled since 1984, and so-called lifers now account for one in nine people behind bars, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Sentencing Project. The Washington-based research and advocacy group, which has long pushed for criminal justice reforms, said in the report that nearly 160,000 people were serving life sentences in 2012, or 10.6 percent of the 1.5 million inmates being held in state and federal prisons. "Life sentences have increased steadily over the years beginning with the first documented national census of this population in 1984," the report said, adding that the total was up nearly 12 percent since 2008. Read More. |
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