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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.

CJCJ’s new report finds, in California’s state youth corrections system, violence has increased, gang culture is pervasive, and mental health treatment is at times nonexistent.

CJCJ has updated it’s Farrell Litigation Timeline to include relevant events from 2013 — 2015

After the Doors Were Locked: California’s juvenile justice history; JJS supports youth on Polynesia Violence Prevention Day; CJCJ participates in Monterey County Proposition 47 town hall

CJCJ brief estimates the potential county-level savings and jail population reductions that could result from implementing Prop 47.

Most people in California’s jails have not had their day in court — they are detained because they are simply too poor to post bail.