Ashley Nellis is a senior research analyst for The Sentencing Project who has written extensively on the prevalence of life sentences in the United States. The co-author, with Marc Mauer, of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (The New Press), she lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
“[C]onvincingly and meticulously researched. . . . Mauer and Nellis not only build a compelling argument for ending life imprisonment; they also provide strategic public-policy groundwork for enacting a maximum 20-year sentence. . . .
