Details: An examination of more than 366,000 offenders convicted and sentenced in 90 federal district courts from 2010 to 2017 found racial disparities around life sentences targeting Black offenders. (The research excluded offenses related to immigration law.)

More than 4,800 of all offenders were eligible for life imprisonment — and almost 1,200 received life sentences, the study found.

Black offenders accounted for fewer than a third of all cases but constituted nearly half of those eligible for life sentences.

White offenders accounted for more than a third of all cases but constituted less than a quarter of those eligible for life sentences.