Publisher's Statement
Cruel and All Too Usual
A recent study by the American Civil Liberties Union found that over 3,200 people in this country are serving life terms without parole for nonviolent crimes. The vast majority of them have been locked up for victimless, drug-related offenses—and most of the prisoners are African American.
This trend of gross injustice results from the failed policy of mandatory-minimum sentencing combined with glaringly obvious institutional racism. Even the judges involved in many of these cases are raising loud objections to the sentences that federal and state law force them to impose.
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Larry Flynt, Publisher
