Mary Price is Vice President and General Counsel of Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM). She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.
Prior to joining FAMM, Ms. Price was associated with the law firm of Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank, LLP where she handled appeals of courts martial and conducted administrative advocacy on behalf of U.S. service members. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Corrections and Sentencing Committee and served on the Practitioners’ Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing Commission.
Ms. Price graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar and the Law Center’s first recipient of the Bettina Pruckmayr Human Rights Award. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon. Ms. Price joined the staff of FAMM in late 2000. Follow her on Twitter @maryfromfamm.
- FAMM/Human Rights Watch report, "The Answer Is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in US Prisons," 2012
- Bureau of National Affairs, Criminal Law Report, "Highlights and Lowlights From the New Report On Mandatory Minimums From the U.S. Sentencing Commission," article by Mary Price and James Felman, 2012
- Huffington Post, September 24, 2012: “Sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin.” Op-Ed
- Movie: Unjustified (2012)
- Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission, February 15, 2012: Federal Sentencing After Booker. Testimony
- Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission, March 17, 2011: Proposed Drug Amendments. Testimony
- MainJustice, November 22, 2011: “It’s Not the Judges.” Op–Ed
- National Law Journal, July 25, 2011, “Out of Control Fraud Guidelines.” Op-Ed
- Written Testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, October 12, 2011, The Status of Federal Sentencing and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Six Years After Booker. Testimony
- Article in the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, Winter, 2010
- Testimony to Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Canada, October 28, 2009, Mandatory Minimums in the United States. Testimony
- Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission, March 20, 2007: Compassionate Release. Testimony
- National Teleconference following release of Booker v. United States, January 25, 2005. Transcript.
- Federal Sentencing Reporter, June 2006, Firearm Offenses, “Model Sentencing Guidelines.” Article
- Federal Sentencing Reporter, “A Case for Compassion.”
- Federal Sentencing Reporter, “The Other Safety Valve”
- Mary Price, Sentencing Reform: Eliminating Mandatory Minimums, Easing Harsh Sentencing Structures and Building “Smart-on-Crime Solutions,” 28 Champion 18 (2004). Article
- Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission, March 9, 2001, Proposed Ecstasy Guideline. Testimony