I found this article, published in 2004 by the Sentencing Project (taken over from Kluwer Int. Law) about a group of Lifers in the Midwest:

Some years ago while working for a Quaker organization,I helped to start a prison visitation program at a large state prison in the Midwest. Over a period of time, I had come to know a group of lifers at the prison who had organized themselves into a public education and advocacy organization.

Read more here: (html-version)

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:YUUjPa423uQJ:www.sentencingproject. org/pdfs/fsr-feb04.pdf+group+of+lifers&hl=nl&gl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=72

Or in PDF:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/pdfs/fsr-feb04.pdf.