Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence – The Sentencing Project
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 18, 2023
Charting a Path to 20 Years
Rolling back decades of increasingly punitive sentencing structures will be difficult, but all jurisdictions can begin to rein in the local drivers of extreme sentences. The following recommendations offer paths toward a 20-year sentencing cap. Legislative reform strategies should target the statutes and practices that drive extreme sentences while taking account of local political considerations.
- Abolish death and life without parole sentencesThe path to capping sentences at 20 years should begin with eliminating, prospectively and retroactively, the most extreme sentences: the death penalty and life without . . .
