"Death by incarceration sentences do not keep the public safer.
There are real things to march about right now: the gutted Voting Rights Act, mass incarceration, sentencing disparities connected to prolific stand your ground laws, workers without jobs, plus the recent attacks on food stamps by some legislators, even in light of growing disparity in American hunger rates.
After he completed a six-month shock-incarceration sentence for his drug conviction, immigration authorities could have moved to deport Mr. Antoine, but state parole officials and his family said they did not.
Breyer wrote a minority judgment in which he said: "I have little doubt about the cruelty of so long a period of incarceration under sentence of death".
"I have little doubt about the cruelty of so long a period of incarceration under sentence of death," Breyer wrote.
That's it, the one and only record on paper of protracted U.S. incarceration: three sentences for four years of a young Afghan's life, written in language Orwell would have recognized.
America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline; is a toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities, violence and massive incarceration which sentences millions of children of color to social and economic death.
Each can be confirmed through a number of outcomes and measurements--wage gaps, employment gaps, cultural influence, political power, economic power, incarceration rates, sentencing disparities... and on and on.
In those instances when he and his students have "gotten lucky," they have provided a powerful corrective to an insufficiently recognized evil in our society: the conviction, incarceration and sometimes the sentencing to death of people who are innocent.
Specifically, in the states in which these data were collected, those sentenced to more than 12 months are generally sentenced to incarceration in state prison, while those sentenced to 12 months or less are generally sentenced to incarceration in local jails, such as Rikers Island in New York City.
The case of James Ward, now 31, was highlighted by BBC Radio 4's Today after he wrote to the programme saying he felt "trapped in a box" over his continued incarceration under a sentencing programme which was abolished as a failure in 2012.
