| Nearly half of the 203,000 people in the United States serving life sentences are Black, and fewer than a third are White, according to reporting from The Washington Post's Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins. In Maryland, the racial disparity is especially stark — nearly 80 percent of prisoners serving life sentences are Black. After a political push in the '90s to be tough on crime, a wave of "truth in sentencing" laws have left parole-eligible prisoners, the majority of whom are Black, to grow old in prison. Also in this edition, meet the TikTokers diversifying travel reporting. Thanks for reading!  Darryl Taylor, 50, seen last year at the Maryland Correctional Institution, where he has been imprisoned since 2000 for a murder he says he did not commit. Taylor was recommended for parole in 2019 but rejected by Gov. Larry Hogan (R). (Jene Traore) The long shadow of "truth in sentencing" politics in Maryland, where the vast majority of lifers are Black. By Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins ● Read more » | | | |
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