Tackling Mass Incarceration in the US
· 30 min · Episode 128
Episode Tackling Mass Incarceration in the US
Stanford’s Michael Romano on mass incarceration and reforming California’s Three Strikes law
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Why does the U.S. have the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with individuals, communities, and taxpayers paying a steep price for lengthy prison terms for even nonviolent offenders? Michael Romano, a criminal justice lawyer who founded and directs the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law School, the first law school program of its type in the country focused on securing reduced sentences for incarcerated people deemed to be serving disproportionate sentences, has spent his career on this uniquely American challenge. As the project’s director for the past 16 years, Mike has worked with Stanford Law students to win the release of more than 200 Californians imprisoned under the state’s Three Strikes law.
Along with helping hundreds of people sentenced to life in prison for minor/nonviolent crimes, the Three Strikes team also worked to change California’s Three Strikes Law. In 2012 they celebrated passage of the Three Strikes Reform Act, a landmark legislative effort led from start to finish by Stanford Law students and project staff members in partnership with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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- https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All
- https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/three-strikes-project-marks-10-years-of-sentencing-law-reform/
- https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-legal-podcast/
- https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/stanfordlegal/
- https://twitter.com/our_ford
- https://law.stanford.edu/pamela-s-karlan/
- https://twitter.com/stanfordlaw
- https://twitter.com/@stanfordlawmag
- https://twitter.com/mromano
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