Crimes and Sentencing of 10-20-Life Felons

Crime Type
Life Mandatory Minimum Sentence

• Of the 3,887 felons currently in the Department’s custody with a 10-20-Life sentence, 78 (2.0%) received life as their longest mandatory minimum term.
  
  
• Robbery accounts for 8 (10.3%) of the 78 whose longest mandatory sentence is life.
  
  
• Other violent crime (aggravated assault, aggravated battery, carjacking, etc.) accounts for 5 (6.4%) of the 78 whose longest mandatory sentence is life.
  
  
• Murder or manslaughter accounts for 64 (82.1%) of the felons whose longest mandatory sentence is life.