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Indefinite sentencing is cruel and inhumane Indefinite sentencing is cruel and inhumane January 2, 2021 by Mutope Duguma On Dec. 7, 2020, newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón gave a public announcement in Special Directive 20-14 – click to download the PDF – which laid out a comprehensive directive, or blueprint, toward ending state-sanctioned execution in the form of indefinite sentencing, where, for decades, humans in CDCr suffer permanent imprisonment. We the people support this comprehensive special directive 20-14, but believe it falls short – it is not yet reaching the prison population held indefinitely under cruel and unusual punishment. As a human being who has been subjected to 33 years of imprisonment held in an 8-by-10-foot cell for a conviction in the 1980s, I know it is cruel and unusual punishment. ....