Marc Mauer is an American criminal justice advocate who began his career in 1975 as National Justice Communications Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee before joining the Sentencing Project in 1987, where he became executive director in 2005. He has become one of the most prominent critics of the high rate of incarceration in the United States, and his advocacy has focused on sentencing reform tied to the country's drug enforcement policies and on documenting racial disparities within the criminal justice system.
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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.
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1. Wikidata: Marc Mauer
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