[news] Living in Hell for Life: The Slow Death of Life Without Parole

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By MARLENE MARTIN - August 2/3, 2008

...[T]he U.S. stands even further apart from the rest of the world in one nightmarish aspect of its prison system--the men and women sentenced to spend the rest of their lives behind bars...There are over 132,000 people serving life sentences in the U.S. One in 10 are forbidden from ever receiving parole, but overall, only one in four of the larger group will ever come before a parole board.  


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