Life Without Parole: A Case For Reform

Notwithstanding societal effects on the human mind, to put things more simply, rates of incarceration are extraordinarily high in the US because of harsh sentencing laws that condemn tens of thousands of individuals to serving lengthy sentences including life without the possibility of parole. It is the long sentences and not the crimes that are unique to the US, resulting in prisons that grow at a rate much faster than people die, admitting new prisoners while continuing to house the old, despite them aging out of the reasonable ability to commit new crimes.