Read This: 'A Way Out' report by ALS

photo: Flickr user Miss_Millions (CC BY 2.0)

photo: Flickr user Miss_Millions (CC BY 2.0)

 
 

The authors of a new report from the Abolitionist Law Center argue the practice of life-without-parole (LWOP) sentencing is racially discriminatory, needlessly costly, and arbitrarily cruel.