Question: How many prisoners in the us have life sentences?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: At what frequency do prisoners in the us get life sentences?
As of 2012, how many prisoners in the us have life sentences?
As of 2012, how many prisoners in the us have life sentences without the chance of parole?
answer: 1 in every 2,000
159,000
nearly 50,000
Natural Questions answer: Over 159,000 (from the Wikipedia article "Life imprisonment in the United States")