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Search results for “three strikes” Search Results You searched for “three strikes” Search Report The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws: How "Habitual Offender" Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization March 5, 2025 Report Life Goes On: The Historic Rise in Life Sentences in America September 18, 2013 Report Counting Down: Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence February 15, 2023 Amicus Brief Amicus Brief in Support of Ending North Carolina Felony Disenfranchisement Lawsuit August 18, 2022 Publication One in Five: Racial Disparity in Imprisonment — Causes and Remedies December 7, 2023 Policy Brief Responding to Crimes of a Sexual Nature: What We Really Want Is No More Victims January 30, 2024 Report Long-Term Sentences: Time to Reconsider the Scale of Punishment November 5, 2018 Webinar Reforming State Policy on Sentencing and Collateral Consequences April 19, 2016 Sentencing Reform Press Release New Report from The Sentencing Project Reveals The Hidden Eugenics History Behind America’s Harsh Sentencing Laws March 5, 2025 Back to Top
Report The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws: How "Habitual Offender" Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization March 5, 2025
Amicus Brief Amicus Brief in Support of Ending North Carolina Felony Disenfranchisement Lawsuit August 18, 2022
Policy Brief Responding to Crimes of a Sexual Nature: What We Really Want Is No More Victims January 30, 2024
Press Release New Report from The Sentencing Project Reveals The Hidden Eugenics History Behind America’s Harsh Sentencing Laws March 5, 2025
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