1 This count continues to decline as more states eliminate JLWOP. This number reflects a 38% drop in the population of people serving JLWOP since our 2016 count and a 44% drop since the peak count of JLWOP figures in 2012. The Sentencing Project, in its national survey of life and virtual life sentences in the United States found 1,465 people serving JLWOP sentences at the start of 2020. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have banned life sentences without the possibility of parole for people under 18 in nine additional states, no one is serving life without parole for offenses committed before age 18. The momentum to protect youth rights in the criminal legal system is clear.
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