How Florida’s “two strikes” law keeps people in prison for life [UmzvW2U0a3f]
The number of people serving life-without-parole sentences across the U.S. has soared to 56,000 in the last two decades, according to The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group. Some people received these penalties as an alternative to capital punishment, which has fallen out of favor with many prosecutors and the public. But there’s another reason for the increase: A handful of states have embraced life-without-parole sentences to punish “repeat offenders” — even if their crimes didn’t cause physical injury, an investigation by The Marshall Project and The Tampa Bay Times found. 🖊️: Cary Aspinwall & Weihua Li / The Marshall Project and Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times 🎥: Chris Vazquez / The Marshall Project #shorts #florida #criminaljustice