Sentencing Alternatives
Additional Resources
Archival DPIC Content
- Life Without Parole News and Developments: 2003
- Life Without Parole News and Developments: 2004
- Sentencing for Life: Americans Embrace Alternatives to the Death Penalty (DPIC Report 1993)
Related Issues
- Fact Sheet on prison killings from Equal Justice USA
From The Sentencing Project
- R. Mendel, Effective Alternatives to Youth Incarceration, The Sentencing Project (2023).
- L. Komar, A. Nellis, and K. Budd, Counting Down: Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence, The Sentencing Project (2023).
- J. Rovner, Too Many Locked Doors: The scope of youth confinement is vastly understated, The Sentencing Project (2022).
- A. Nellis, Life Goes On: The Historic Rise in Life Sentences in America, The Sentencing Project (2013).
- M. Mauer and K. Epstein, editors, To Build a Better Criminal Justice System, The Sentencing Project (2012). Features 25 essays on the future of America’s criminal justice system, written by academics, advocates, and other experts.
- A. Nellis and R. King, No Exit: The Expanding Use of Life Sentences In America, The Sentencing Project (2009). Read a summary by DPIC.
- DPIC Summary: The Sentencing Project’s Report, The Meaning of ‘Life’: Long Prison Sentences in Context (2004).
Books, Articles, and Reports
- H. Golden, Tribal courts across the country are expanding holistic alternatives to the criminal justice system, Associated Press. (August 20, 2023).
- R. Johnson and A. Dobrzanska, Mature coping among life-sentenced inmates: an exploratory study of adjustment dynamics, Corrections Compendium. (November 2005).
- A. Liptak, To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars, New York Times, October 2, 2005.
- M. Lane, Is there life without parole? A capital defendant’s right to a meaningful alternative sentence, 26 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 327 (1993).