Crimes and Sentencing of 10-20-Life Felons

Crime Type
25-Year to Life Mandatory Minimum Sentence
(Excluding Life)

The 10-20-Life law provides a mandatory minimum prison sentence from 25 years to life in prison for those who injure or kill a victim by firing a gun while committing a crime.

• Of the 3,887 felons currently in the Department’s custody with a 10-20-Life sentence, 391 (10.1%) received from 25 years to life (excluding life) as their longest mandatory minimum term.
  
  
• Robbery accounts for 35 (9.0%) of the 391 whose longest mandatory sentence is from 25 years to life.
  
  
• Other violent crime (aggravated assault, aggravated battery, carjacking, etc.) accounts for 54 (13.8%) of the 391 whose longest mandatory sentence is 25 years to life.
  
  
• Murder or manslaughter accounts for 294 (75.2%) of the felons whose longest mandatory sentence is 25 years to life.