commutations — Blog — Criminal Injustice

Every year, courts hand out sentences of life without the possibility of parole to people convicted of serious crimes. Our guest today was one of those people, and he’ll tell us what that was like – and, with his sentence commuted, what his life is like on the outside, after 43 years.

InterviewsDavid HarrisFebruary 18, 2020Robert Wideman, Pittsburgh, life sentences, commutations, mass incarceration, Dave's Faves, 91-120

Hear This: You're Doing Fine, Oklahoma

Recommended: NPR's November 4 report on the release of hundreds of prisoners in Oklahoma after their sentences were reduced by the state's Pardon and Parole Board.

Bonus EpisodesDavid HarrisDecember 3, 2019prisons, mass incarceration, Oklahoma, Hear This, NPR, decarceration, commutations

episodes