The Sentencing Project is a Washington, D.C. based research and advocacy organization founded in 1986 by lawyer Malcolm C. Young, building on pilot programs he had developed in the early 1980s through the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, working to reduce incarceration in the United States and address racial disparities within the criminal justice system. The organization produces nonpartisan research and reports intended for use by policymakers, criminal justice administrators and journalists at the federal, state and local levels, focusing on issues including sentencing policy, mass incarceration and the restoration of voting rights to people with felony convictions. Rather than representing individual clients or litigating cases directly, its role is chiefly one of research, public education and policy advocacy aimed at shaping the laws and practices that drive incarceration rates and their racial disparities. Its work has made it one of the most frequently cited research organizations in American debates over criminal justice and sentencing reform.
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Marc Mauer led The Sentencing Project as Executive Director for over twenty-five years and authored Race to Incarcerate, a defining text of mass-incarceration research and advocacy.
The Sentencing Project, founded 1986, frames its own core mission and 30-plus years of advocacy explicitly as fighting mass incarceration.
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The Sentencing Project: About
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