Mary Price

Mary is General Counsel of FAMM, a corrections and sentencing reform organization working to elevate the voices of people harmed by the criminal justice system in reform efforts. Mary joined FAMM in late 2000 and has led FAMM's work in the courts and before the U.S. Sentencing Commission. She was a founder of Clemency Project 2014 and served the project on its steering committee and as resource counsel.  She is a founder of and helps lead the Compassionate Release Clearinghouse, a project to recruit, train, and support pro bono lawyers and connect them to people whose continued incarceration no longer serves the ends of justice. She is a member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Criminal Justice Section and former Special Advisor to the section.  She serves on the ABA's Sentencing Standards Task Force and was a member of the ABA's Task Force for the Reform of Federal Sentencing for Economic Crimes.  She is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and serves on its First Step Act Implementation Task Force.  Mary serves on the advisory board of the Second Look Network, a project of The Sentencing Project. She received NACDL's Champion of Justice Restoration of Rights Award in 2019 for her work on commutation and compassionate release. She accepted the 2021 Alfred McKenzie Award from the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs for FAMM work on the Compassionate Release Clearinghouse Covid-19 Project.

Mary has produced research on federal and state compassionate releaes programs including her reports "Everywhere and Nowhere: Compassionate Release in the States" and "Grading the States: The State Compassionate Release Report Card Project." She maintains research memos on every state compassionate release program on the FAMM website as well as report cards on those programs.

Mary graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar and was the Law Center's first recipient of the Bettina Prukmayr Human Rights Award. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon.