The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws: Webinar by the Sentencing Project (April 24)
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gN7gF0bkT0aPXkfYxjnmEA?emci=1a1b86b2-8616-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=edfdcf98-f316-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=15520060#/registration Last month, The Sentencing Project released a report titled "The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws: How ‘Habitual Offender’ Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization," revealing how American eugenicists promoted “habitual offender” laws in the early 1900s because they falsely believed that certain people who committed crimes were genetically predestined...