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CJCJ’s research focuses on sentencing and correctional reforms that strengthen community safety. Our team investigates conditions in state prisons and county jails. We highlight institutional failures and the need for broader reform. We also track criminal justice sentencing practices that disproportionately impact people of color. 

Since 1986, CJCJ has conducted research on innovative community-based alternatives to incarceration. We investigate programs that best support formerly incarcerated people reentering their communities. These models build a foundation for successful reentry by addressing people’s diverse needs.

Below you will find our research and reports on adult prisons, sentencing, and transformative community programs for justice-involved individuals.

For more information, contact CJCJ Communications at cjcjmedia@​cjcj.​org or (415) 6215661 x. 103.

Given that so many of the women in prison in California are driven to drug use because of poverty and abuse, the real issue before us is detention or prevention?

A study of San Francisco’s practice of policing homelessness. Our Officers and Deputies are highly trained individuals, but they can not be expected to protect us from poverty. 

Examination of corrections in CA concludes, we starve programs which could have an impact on crime in order to pour money into a bloated imprisonment program which cannot work.” 

As California’s prison population tops 100,000, we urge policy makers to reflect upon the high costs and negative results of our reliance upon jails.