The Justice Advocacy Project is cited in this Global Post article on the amount of CA  “Three Strikes” inmates serving sentences for non-violent crimes. 

Democratic and Republican senators unveiled a sweeping, US criminal justice reform plan Thursday to reduce sentences for non-violent drug offenders and grant judges greater discretion in meting out punishments for lower-level drug crimes.

The legislation has been three years in the making, and takes aim at the nation’s mandatory prison sentences, which many lawmakers and activists warn often do not fit the crime for which the convicted are put behind bars.

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More than half the inmates sentenced under California’s “Three Strikes You’re Out” law are serving sentences for non-violent crimes, according to the Justice Advocacy Project at Stanford Law School.

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