Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, DC, that promotes criminal justice reform. He is the co-editor (with Meda Chesney-Lind) of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment and the co-author (with Ashley Nellis) of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (all published by The New Press). He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

“An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story.”—San Diego Union-Tribune “Insightful. . . . Sheds new light on the relationship between drug use, sales, arrests, and race.”—Emerge “Race to Incarcerate explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men.”—Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors

Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, DC, that promotes criminal justice reform. He is the co-editor (with Meda Chesney-Lind) of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment and the co-author (with Ashley Nellis) of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (all published by The New Press). He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

“An important book. The numbers tell a shocking story.”—San Diego Union-Tribune “Insightful. . . . Sheds new light on the relationship between drug use, sales, arrests, and race.”—Emerge “Race to Incarcerate explains why prisoners have become commodities and why present policies are draining black communities of their young men.”—Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors