Look at this fact sheet by the Sentencing Project (2023) on A Second Look at Long Term Imprisonment in Michigan. How punitive are Michigan's sentencing policies compared to national trends?

https://www.sentencingproject.org/fact-sheet/a-second-look-at-long-term-imprisonment-in-michigan/

2. Check out the first ten minutes of VICE News' (2023) Two Strikes and You're in Prison Forever: Life Without Parole Sentences Are on the Rise. (2023). Describe Florida's Two Strikes law. What is it? What impact has it had? (For more on Florida's law, the recent PBS Frontline documentary Two Strikes (2023) (20 minutes) also provides an additional example to consider).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebytKVbaQ3M

3. Watch this NYT Opinion video (10:30 minutes) This Is What it Looks like to Spend your Life in Prison (August 1, 2023) which highlights the voices of men serving life without parole sentences in Angola Prison in rural Louisiana. What do you take away from their stories?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpgT_VTEjE

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