The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences

Mauer's Sales Track: Race to Incarcerate sold over 20,000 across editions (including a graphic adaptation), the edited anthology Invisible Punishment sold over 13,000 copies Profiles of Lifers: The book includes six moving profiles of individuals currently serving life sentences. The profiles are written by Kerry Meyers, who was falsely convicted of murder and served 27 years in Angola, the notorious Louisiana prison. Leader of the Movement to End Mass Incarceration: Marc Mauer and The Sentencing Project have consistently been on the vanguard of criminal justice reform for thirty years. Michelle Alexander cites Mauer's work as inspiring her to write The New Jim Crow. Campaign: The Sentencing Project will launch this book into a broader campaign to end life sentences and reform long sentences; with this punishment so often cited as the alternative to the death sentence, this will be a groundbreaking and provoking campaign that will gain national attention. The campaign will be spearheaded by The Sentencing Project and will include a range of other criminal justice reform organizations including The Osborne Project, the Bronx Defenders, NuLeadership Campaign, The Innocence Project, The Vera Center, etc. Blurbs expected from Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Eric Holder, Sherrilyn Ifill, etc.