In 1974, there were approximately 500 people serving life-without-parole, what prisoners and activists call death-by-incarceration, in Pennsylvania. Today, there are more than 5,000.
In September, the Abolitionist Law Center, a prisoners' rights legal advocacy group in Pittsburgh, released a new report on DBI called A Way Out: Abolishing Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania. In this episode, we hear from Quinn Cozzens, a staff attorney from ALC and a co-author of the report. Quinn talks about the findings of the report and the path forward to ending this dehumanizing, extreme sentence.
The report is available at abolitionistlawcenter.org. ALC is also on Twitter @ AbolitionistLC and on Facebook.
