The Democratic blue and Republican red color scheme is now part of the lexicon of American journalism. Neither party national committee has officially accepted these color designations, though informal use by each party is becoming common.
The federal-prison.org sentence calculator shows the total time that an inmate can expect to serve in federal prison assuming that they behave and are awarded all Good Conduct Time for which they are eligible. Some of this time may be spent in a halfway house. All inmates are to be considered for up to 12 months of halfway house time.
One of every 11 (9.4 percent) offenders in state/federal prisonâ127,677 personsâis now serving a life sentence. Of the lifers in prison, one in four (26.3 percent) is serving a sentence of life without parole, having increased from one in six (17.8 percent) in 1992. The number of lifers in prison rose by 83 percent from 69,845 in 1992 to 127,677 in 2003.