A new report says Louisiana is among the national leaders in the number of its prisoners serving life sentences without a chance of parole. The Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project is a nonprofit research group that wants the elimination of such sentences. The group wants states to give more discretion to parole boards. Louisiana and four other states—California, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania—have more than 3,000 people serving such sentences. Adding to Louisiana’s numbers are state laws that do not allow parole for prisoners serving life terms, even to juveniles. “The expansion of life sentences suggests that we’re rapidly losing faith in the rehabilitation model,” Ashley Nellis, the report’s main author, told The New York Times.
Study: 3,000 have life without parole in Louisiana
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