Entries tagged with “National Black Women’s Justice Institute”

Oct 07, 2021

Report: More Women Serving Extreme Sentences in the United States

The number of women serving extreme sentences in the United States has increased sharply in the last decade, a September 2021 report by a collaborative of criminal law reform organizations has found. The report, In The Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences in the United States, released September 22 by The Sentencing Project, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, and the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, determined that the number of women serving…