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| About 100 serving life sentence for nonviolent offenses |
| By clarionledger.com- Jimmie E. Gates |
| Published: 07/17/2015 |
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Charlie Blunt of Jackson is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for stealing a pickup. Johnny Coleman of Rankin County is serving a life sentence for being a peeping tom. Both men are among 115 active Mississippi Department of Corrections inmates serving habitual life sentences for nonviolent crimes. Mississippi has two habitual offenders laws, one of which can lead to life in prison without parole if a person is convicted of any felony after two previous convictions — with one being for a violent offense — and having been sentenced to serve at least one year in prison on each of the prior convictions. The lesser law leads to a maximum sentence with parole. One of the final cases the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on in June involved the federal habitual offender law, often referred to as the “three-strikes law.” Read More. |
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