Interviews with current and former 3-Strikers, their loved ones, and public officials. Information on the law and on mass incarceration.

Washington is the first 3-Strikes state in the nation.

The sentence in this state is for 777 years, 77 months, and 77 days with No Possibility for Release. The most common conviction leading to this sentence is Robbery 2, an un-armed crime classified in the bottom quarter of seriousness in the state's 16-level scale of criminal seriousness.

More than a third of the state's approximately 300 3-Strikers have no convictions for any crime classified as a Serious Violent Offense. Washington state is about 3.5% Black. The 3-Strikes population is 40% Black.