Lifetime prison sentences should be re-examined after a study found racial disparities among those sentenced to North Carolina’s harshest punishment short of death, Duke University legal experts say.

A new study has found that judges appointed by Republican presidents hand down longer sentences to Black defendants than judges appointed by Democrat presidents. The study, conducted by Harvard Law ...

A new Duke University study reveals racial disparities in how sentences of life without parole are handed out – but it's the race of the victim, not the defendant, that often is the key factor.

I’m taking it for granted that anyone who knows anything about the American criminal-justice system could hazard a guess that black men end up serving longer prison sentences than white men who commit ...