New Sentencing Project report: “Amid growing public support for criminal justice reform, policymakers and criminal justice practitioners have begun to scale back prison sentences for low-level, nonviolent crimes. Although the results have been modest—a 5% reduction in the overall U.S. prison population between 2009 and 2015—this shift follows almost four decades of prison expansion. But … Continue reading Delaying a Second Chance: The Declining Prospects for Parole on Life Sentences