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Learn about our key areas of focus to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice.
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Racial Justice

Ending mass incarceration must include combating racial inequality and disparity.

Sentencing Reform

It's time to take a second look at extreme sentences.

Voting Rights

The criminal justice system shouldn't have a say in our democracy.

Youth Justice

We must end youth incarceration and provide all youth with the support they need to thrive.
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Second Look Network

Ending mass incarceration requires taking a second look at extreme sentences. Learn more about our coalition of legal professionals providing direct representation to incarcerated individuals seeking relief from lengthy or unfair sentences.
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Our Work

Explore our work at the national, state, and local level to promote a fair and effective criminal legal system.

Second Look Network

The Network serves, connects, and empowers legal advocates across the country to bring people serving excessive and unfair prison sentences home.

Get Involved

Changing laws and policies to end mass incarceration require a mass movement. Here are ways you can take action.
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50 Years and a Wake Up

This year marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its unprecedented surge. Partner with us to end mass incarceration!
Research

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Growth in Mass Incarceration

The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration. Get the facts and statistics on trends in U.S. incarceration.

U.S. Criminal Justice Data

View state-level data to provide a snapshot of key indicators of mass incarceration's impact in the United States

Detailed Data Tool

Compare state-level incarceration data for youth and adults with this expanded data set

Resource Library

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One in Five

One in five Black men born in 2001 is likely to experience imprisonment within their lifetime. Our four-part “One in Five” series examines racial inequities in America’s criminal legal system, as well as highlights promising reforms.
- Glossary of Criminal Justice Terms

Sara Cohbra

Second Look Network Director

Sara Cohbra directs and supports the Second Look Network by organizing and leading training opportunities and providing resources to Network members representing individuals in legal resentencing proceedings nationwide. Sara consults with and connects Network members to further their successes for their clients in state and federal courts. Together with the Second Look Network Program Manager and the Network’s Advisory Board, Sara sets priorities for best practices and collaboration.

Before joining The Sentencing Project, Sara directly represented indigent clients in resentencing proceedings in a variety of contexts. She represented incarcerated clients facing and sentenced to death in capital cases at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, the Federal Community Defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and in private practice, and served as a mitigation specialist with federal capital trial and resentencing teams under Washington, DC’s Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act. She served in the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, collaborating with defense attorneys to persuade courts to vacate unjust convictions and recommending more appropriate sentences through recharging and commutation proceedings. Sara earned her undergraduate degree from Pomona College and her juris doctorate from Stanford Law School.