PHOTO VIA RELEASE AGING PEOPLE IN PRISON (RAPP)

Please see and share widely my newest article written for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) about what activists across the country are doing to end the sentence of life without parole.

It begins: “With 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States is the world’s largest jailer. Yet after decades of holding this dubious honor, many Americans have begun to question what Fordham law professor John Plaff calls “this massive experiment in punitive social control.” Decarceration is being discussed in states across the country.”  MORE